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Originally Posted by Starson17
Since I wrote it to solve a specific problem I was having, I'll answer.
If you're adding a few books, either drag them into the edit metadata screen for an existing book, or just drag them into the main GUI, tell Calibre to add any duplicate titles it finds and Merge together the duplicate titles you want merged (or don't merge if that's your preference). That's why I wrote Merge.
The option you're asking about (referred to by me as the "autosort/automerge" option due to the long name that's next to that option box <grin>) was designed for when you're adding lots of books, not just a few. In that case, you don't want to have to Merge manually, so you turn the option on.
Similarly, if you're adding lots of books, you don't want to have to answer "a dialogue box that gives us a choice of whether to merge into one entry or keep in separate entries" dozens of times. Turning on the option is the global answer to that question, and turning it off and Merging (or not) is not much more work for just a few books.
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Aha. But since you already have a dialogue popping up (if the automerge is turned off), would it be hard to add one more choice: Import both, but don't merge? Right now, it's a tad confusing, because it either merges or does something that you can't quite predict based on the dialogue box choices.