Today, Amazon launches its own rival to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendation site it also owns. The retailer announced the availability of a new Amazon feature, Your Books, that will organize all the books you've bought, borrowed or saved, including print books, Amazon's Kindle, and Audible titles. This library will help to fuel discovery and recommendations of other books you might like, which can be saved to wish lists.

While the focus here is on book discovery to fuel future purchases, rather than tracking and reviewing books in the way on Goodreads, there's an awful lot of overlap between this offering and Amazon's other platform for book lovers it bought back in 2013-and hasn't much done to update since. As is the case with Goodreads, the new tool will assist users to organize their own collection of books they have read and those they intend to read as well as discover new ones. The reviews are instead written by Amazon shoppers instead of reading those of other Goodreads users.

It introduces another Goodreads scandal with yet another author who lost her book deal after admitting to the crime: anonymously "review bombing" books by other debut authors. A problem that Goodreads has struggled with for a while now, it's just the most recent, detailed, and gossipy installment, written up by The New York Times in June : how review bombing dunks new books, sinking them even before publication. This makes Goodreads a double-edged sword for authors-it could be the very same thing that gets the excitement rolling on a new title to be against them.

It's using Your Books and focusing more on commerce and data from Amazon than on others' negative and positive reviews.

Under the Library tab, you can find all the books you've purchased or borrowed from Amazon. You can also arrange your library in any way you like, such as by genre, authors, series, and so on. You can also get recommendations for a single title, group of titles, or from your whole library and reading history here.

Another tab, the Saved Books tab, will pull in all the books you've ever saved to any of your Amazon Wish Lists. From this page, you can filter based on price, subscription eligibility, genre interests and more, helping to guide you to your next book pick. (Unfortunately for parents, this also pulls in titles you saved for your kids, too.)

According to Amazon, you can use filters and tags in order to refine the results of view recommendations from either tab and can turn on a "Discovery Mode," too, which will transform your library into what Amazon calls a "bookstore tailored just for you," presenting recommendations across Genres and providing easy access to the Similar Titles associated with a single book. In effect, it is a long scroll of "More like this."

It is powered by data that Amazon already possesses about book purchases across its customer base. As with any other product, it knows which customers buy one item and which other items they also go ahead to buy. Now it's combining those insights with a new front end for book discovery.

The feature also comes as Spotify enters the world of audiobooks, a space currently dominated by Amazon-owned Audible. To keep its readers within its own book-buying ecosystem, Amazon combines all of your activity with your audiobook titles with other e-books and printed books for better recommendations. It also complements the Amazon Book Clubs section of its website, which helps users find new titles to read as a group.