Removed track numbers still appear on iTunes (iOS)

I recently purchased one song on iTunes, and edited its properties so that it got into a compilation of various artists I have. I removed the track number, because I want that compilation to be sorted alphabetically.
On OSX it worked just fine, but on iOS iTunes still shows the track number and places the song at the bottom of the list. No matter how many times I change the track number on OSX, after I remove it iOS will keep on showing the last track number I used before deleting it (I tried even with ‘0’, but it has the same behavior as deleting it).
I understand this is some kind of bug, but is there anything I can do to get rid of that track number?
Thanks.

Found the answer in another section after continued searching. Search for several minutes, but I find it right after I post my question. Doh!
When I disconnected by iPad, the Books section came up in iTunes and I saw the PDF's there. I just clicked on the one's I wanted to delete and hit the Delete key.

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OK, that was the wrong approach. What should have worked would have been the process described in Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash. No doubt your songs not only start with two leading digits, but have also lost the information regarding artist, album and their actual track numbers.
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My apologies for the lack of photos, here is my post again with photos.
I have hidden unwanted books from the purchased area of the iBooks store, but they're are still appearing on the front page of iOS as cloud downloads, is there a way to remove these from iBooks without using the hide iCloud books button?
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This is exactly how I think this feature should work. If you have hidden a book from your purchases it should not show up in the mac Ibooks app. (I am aware you can never actually delete a purchase, just hide them and that hidden purchases can be restored to your account from within the account management section of the iBooks store).
The iOS app is working differently for me. Here is a picture of the purchased tab on the iBooks store in iOS Ibooks. Again notice that pictures of Lilly is still yet to be downloaded. This is how I expected it to look.
If we visit the front page of iOS iBooks the view is very different from what I expected. Here we can see the 4 books I wanted to keep on my device and have downloaded. We can also see the 1 book I wanted to keep, but did not want to store locally on the device and left in iCloud (Pictures of Lilly). However we can also see all the books I had hidden from the purchased section of my iTunes account and which I believe should no-longer be visible, Dracula, frankenstein etc…
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