diff --git a/spec/fixed_fields/book_bad_008_spec.rb b/spec/fixed_fields/book_bad_008_spec.rb
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+require 'nokogiri'
+require 'marc'
+require 'byebug'
+require 'marc_cleanup'
+
+RSpec.describe 'test bad_008?' do
+  describe 'bad book format 008' do
+    let(:marcfile) {"#{Dir.getwd}/spec/fixtures/fixed_fields/marc_with_bad_book_008.xml"}
+    let(:reader) { MARC::XMLReader.new(marcfile, parser: 'magic') }
+    let(:record_with_bad_008) { reader.first }
+    it 'knows that a record with bad book 008 is invalid' do
+      expect(MarcCleanup.bad_008?(record_with_bad_008)).to eq true
+    end
+  end
+end
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diff --git a/spec/fixtures/fixed_fields/marc_with_bad_book_008.xml b/spec/fixtures/fixed_fields/marc_with_bad_book_008.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<collection xmlns='http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim'
+      xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
+      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd">
+    <record>
+        <leader>01104naa a2200289 i 4500</leader>
+        <controlfield tag="001">99127156537506421</controlfield>
+        <controlfield tag="008">230519s1996    njua   u      000 0 eng d</controlfield>
+        <datafield tag="245" ind1="0" ind2="0">
+            <subfield code="a">PPPL highlights :</subfield>
+            <subfield code="b">Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.</subfield>
+        </datafield>
+    </record>
+</collection>
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