This is one of those questions which at first sight looks simple, but then the more deeply you look into it, the more complex it becomes.
To the honest, my response to it would be "why bother"? If a book has British punctuation, that probably indicates that it is a British book, with British spelling, British punctuation rules (which are different to those most commonly employed in the US), and so on. I'd simply accept that UK books are not the same as US books and read each for what it is.
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