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I solved this by keeping comments in a long text custom column.
Custom long text columns can be edited from the Book List (via F2), the popup editing window is the same as the control embedded within the metadata edit dialogues. But it can be resized to suit ones wants and needs, the last used size is remembered of course.
I have a saved search that finds books with something in Comments, and a saved S&R in bulk metadata edit that moves contents of out Comments into my custom column.
Most of my books do not have downloaded 'comments' - most often I copy and paste text from abstracts or a review, or write them myself.
In the Book List I cloak my custom column with an icon if it has content, via Look and Feel->Column icons. And I show the column contents in the Book details sidebar.
Aside : I never could find a metadata edit window layout I could work with comfortably, even with the a tweak that gives some control over field ordering. So I do 99% of my individual book metadata editing via the book list. Kudos to chaley who did a some mods for custom comments, dates, numbers etc that made it even easier. And to kiwidude for his View Manager plugin that allows me to have multiple Book list column layouts (and sorting) for each physical library.
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