Grammatically incorrect book titles

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Grammatically incorrect book titles

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I am wondering if a book title is grammatically incorrect, should I correct it or put it back as it is?
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First of all, thanks for taking time out to read and reply Gravy. I am reviewing a book that has a title that uses 'it's' when it should 'its' instead. Should I simply leave the name of the book with the grammatical error or should I correct it? If I correct it, do I put the corrected word in square brackets?
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I'm curious now. Could you pm me the title/author?
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I hope you got my pm Gravy. I should have included this following question in the first post but it just came to mind.
I am wondering if quotations that include grammatical errors should be fixed by the reviewer. I've been marked down because of a grammatical error in a quotation but I simply didn't bother to worry about grammatical errors in the quotation because I quoted the author word for word and punctuation for punctuation.
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You better contact Scott about it.

I don't think that quotations that include grammatical errors should be fixed by the reviewer, but the reviewer should mention in the review that the author was the one in fault and that the errors are his. The editors have no way of knowing whose fault it is, otherwise.
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Was it a Book of the Day once? I remember a book being BOTD with a glaring grammatical error in the title. I decided not to read it for that reason. If the author can't proofread the cover, I'm sure the rest of the book is full of errors. And I definitely would mention that in your review. An error in the title is unprofessional and the author should get less stars for that.
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Title can be anything catchy.
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