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Feature Requests for Adding Books

I looked for these features and I couldn't find if it existed or not, so I thought I'd ask here to see if such exists, and if not, can it be added in some future release.

I'm adding a lot of books to my library and I'm using the add book function. When adding books, for those that are already in the library, a popup appears when the add is complete that states:
Merged some Books
The following # duplicate...
The buttons then displayed are OK, Copy to Clipboard & Show Details.
When you click on the Show Details button, a list of what books (author & title) where duplicate, and the Show Details button changes to Hide Details.
Feature 1:
Is there a way to always show the details? If not, could an enhancement be made to remember what state (showing or hiding the details) when the OK button is pressed?
For example the last time you added books with duplicates, you showed the details and clicked OK. The next time you use the function, and duplicates happen, the show details is automatically displayed. This time you hide the details, and click OK. The next time you add books, the details are not automatically shown.
When I'm adding books especially in the large lots that I'm doing right now, I like to check on the duplicates, especially if the metadata is crappy, because I could end up with the different books by different authors all having the same "unknown" author, and the same "unknown" title.
Feature 2:
I must admit having a count after the title would be nice to track down how bad these situations are. In the past I have loaded batches of books with really bad metadata, and had to delete everything, and reload getting the metadata from the file names instead. A count would help diagnose how bad my metadata is when loading books. (This is minor compared to displaying the details, if I had to choose between the two.)
Thanks guys for considering this if it's not already there and I missed it.
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