News – 1) Amazon updates the Kindle 3 software. 2) Kindles are coming to Best Buy this fall.

Tech Tip – John Cog in a post at his Me and My Kindle blog tipped me off to a way to find other Kindle users on Google Maps, courtesy of a computer consultant in Croatia named Dragi Raos.  I added myself in Cambridge, Mass., choosing a location with sentimental value.

Interview (7:28) – James McQuivey is vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, where he covers media technology. Click here for a July post about the Kindle. Click here for his tweets. We spoke by Skype on September 7, 2010 about Forrester’s major survey results confirming the Kindle’s continuing dominance of the e-book sector, as well as a surge by the Barnes & Noble nook which might propel it past Sony’s Reader for the distant Number 2 spot.

Comments – Andrew Everett, Allen MacDiarmid, and Robert Brownson comment on Kindle 3 freeze-ups. Bob Cope reports his K3 is already sporting rosewood skins and a suede jacket. William Green, who is legally blind, loves how easy to read his K3 is in low light with large print. Karen Horvath loves the Kindle’s social media capability.

Next Week’s Interview – Lewis Hyde, author of Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership.