"Add new Books" help

I'm a complete newbie here, just using the software for 3 days now, but so far, I love what I'm doing with it.

Wonder if someone can help me though.

I only have a few hundred books, and am only adding a few at a time, but I'm finding that when importing/adding books, there is no easy way to identify them once added. It appears that they are inserted at the top of the current view, but as soon as you move from there, you lose that order.

So my first question is am I missing an obvious solution to this problem.

If not is there a way when adding, to insert the word "new" to a field (I'm thinking series or a user field perhaps - I don't rely on existing series info much, preferring to check and add my own info anyway).

I've read the tutorial in regular expressions, and don't see how this will help as the word will not appear in the existing metadata anywhere. Also searched the forum, but didn't find any obvious answers.

Thanks

Colin