Yesterday I cam across a feature at Amazon.com that I’d never seen before. It’s called Your Media Library. Once you’re logged into Amazon, you can get there by mousing over the tab with your name (mine says “Scott’s Store”) and clicking one of the links under Your Media Library. You can also try http://www.amazon.com/gp/library/.

What’s cool is that you can add Books, Audio CDs, and Videos. If you buy them through Amazon, they’ll get added automatically, but you can also add anything you like manually. And you can pick the exact item to add to your list, rather than just the movie title, as IMDb does. So if you have the Widescreen Special Edition, you can show that.

When you view your Media Library, you can even choose between a list and a collection of the cover images. Each individual record within your collection automatically shows the author, title, publication date, rating (for movies), ISBN/ASIN number, and “attributes.” You can also add your own tags to the records, so it’s sort of like Library Thing, except that you also get links to the Amazon reviews and feedback on each one.

It doesn’t appear that the items in your Media Library affect your Recommendations yet, but you can get them involved by rating them, adding them to your wishlist, or checking that you own them within the item’s record.

Also, if you go into “your store, you’ll see an option for improving your recommendations. There you can see everything you’ve listed as owning. You can also rate the items there or even UNcheck the box that says “use for recommendations.”

Pretty cool!

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