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There are a lot of public-domain and other older books out there with utterly useless and inaccurate metadata. There are several useful scripts that look for the title page and copyright page and use those as sources to correct bad metadata.
Put another way: Metadata is a GIGO issue that can and should be cross-checked against the actual content of the book (and publishers are awful about it, especially when there's a "new foreword by cringeworthy celebrity" that the publisher has put into the metadata as a coauthor). The cover doesn't include that data in a useful form, so it shouldn't be named in a way indicating that it does have that data in a useful form.
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