The Comfort Book

"Only finite things can be measured, after all."

— Matt Haig, The Comfort Book (2021)

Introduction

The Comfort Book
Author	Matt Haig
Language	English
Subject	Contentment; Hope; Happiness; Inspiration
Genre	Nonfiction; Self-help
Publisher	Penguin Life
Publication date	6 July 2021
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover); e-book; audiobook
Pages	272
ISBN	978-0-14-313666-8
Website	penguinrandomhouse.com

📘 The Comfort Book is a nonfiction collection by Matt Haig, published by Penguin Life on 6 July 2021. The first U.S. edition runs 272 pages (ISBN 978-0-14-313666-8). It gathers short notes, lists, quotations, and brief essays intended to help readers slow down, accept themselves, and find hope, drawing on sources from history, science, and Haig’s own experience. The author frames it as a free-form, non-linear book to “dip into,” with many very short chapters and generous white space rather than a rigid program. It was an instant *New York Times* bestseller, The *Washington Post* named it one of the best feel-good books of 2021 (18 November 2021), and its UK publisher reports it debuted at No. 1 on *The Sunday Times* list.

Chapter summary

This outline follows the Penguin Life hardcover edition (2021, 272 pp.; ISBN 978-0-14-313666-8).

I

👶 1 – Baby. Treat your life like that first day you arrived: value that does not depend on performance, polish, or other people’s approval. Remember that worth is intrinsic and continuous, not a target you have to earn back each time you falter. Their value was innate from their first breath.

🎯 2 – You Are the Goal. Stop measuring your day against moving goalposts; the point is not to upgrade yourself endlessly but to treat yourself kindly as you are. Self-compassion beats self-optimization because care sustains change while punishment exhausts it. You were born worthy of love and you remain worthy of love.

🧭 3 – A thing my dad said once when we were lost in a forest. When panic makes you circle, choose a simple direction and keep going; small, steady steps beat frantic wandering. The Loire Valley detour becomes a compass for hard seasons: progress comes from one clear line forward. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles.

✅ 4 – It’s okay. Give yourself permission to be messy, sentimental, and unfinished; your scars do not disqualify you from belonging. Let people find you, and drop the pressure to optimize every minute just to justify your place. It’s okay to be the teacup with a chip in it.

⚡ 5 – Power. Perspective changes experience; even when circumstances refuse to shift, attention can. Drawing on Marcus Aurelius, the chapter reframes distress as partly the mind’s estimate, which is trainable even when life isn’t. But it is helpful to remember that our perspective is our world.

⚖️ 6 – Nothing either good or bad. Hamlet’s prison reminds us that events are neutral until interpreted; meaning rides on viewpoint. The mind can trap us in judgments—or release us by choosing a wider frame. Our mind might make prisons, but it also gives us keys.

🔄 7 – Change is real. Time turns the key—brains rewire, identities evolve, and no feeling is permanent. Live for future versions of yourself when the present feels impossible. And change is the nature of life.

🕊️ 8 – To be is to let go. Drop the self-punishment loop; forgiveness is not indulgence but a path to integrity. You don’t become better by believing you’re irredeemable. Self-forgiveness makes the world better.

📍 9 – Somewhere. Hope often arrives through art’s lift—the octave leap in “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” a jailbreak in *The Shawshank Redemption*, a sudden song in *The Sound of Music*. Hold present reality while letting imagination point to lighter weather. We can be half inside the present, half inside the future.

🎧 10 – Songs that comfort me—a playlist. Use music as portable shelter and build your own list; these tracks work not because of theory but because they feel like help. Think Judy Garland’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” beside The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun,” plus other personal anchors you can return to on hard days. These aren't all comforting lyrically, or comforting in a logical way, but they all comfort me through the direct or indirect magic only music can muster.

⛰️ 11 – Mountain. Name the problem in front of you, because denial keeps you at the base staring up. Break the climb into the smallest possible steps and allow rests as part of forward motion. Progress is measured in single footholds, not summit photos.

🌄 12 – Valley. Low points are part of the same landscape as peaks, so treat them as places to catch breath, not proof you have failed. Keep a gentle routine—sleep, food, fresh air—so the path out stays visible. Remember that weather changes even when the ground feels the same.

➕ 13 – Sum. A life cannot be reduced to grades, likes, or a single bad week; the arithmetic is larger than any one figure. Gather tiny helps—kind messages, warm meals, short walks—until they add up to relief. Let wholeness include contradictions instead of forcing a perfect answer.

🔤 14 – The subject in the sentence. Put yourself back as the subject when talking about your day so agency replaces obligation. Swap “must” and “should” for verbs that reflect care—rest, ask, pause. Clear sentences make kinder choices easier to execute.

🧠 15 – To remember during the bad days. Feelings are weather, not the climate, and none of them are permanent. Delay irreversible decisions, keep the body moving a little, and speak to someone who can hold a quiet space. Keep a short list of things that have helped before and use it without overthinking.

🕳️ 16 – For when you reach rock bottom. Treat survival as a complete task for today: eat something simple, hydrate, and remove avoidable stress. Ask for specific help and aim only for the next doable action. The future expands as the next hour becomes manageable.

🗿 17 – Rock. Find something solid—rituals, people, places—that does not change as quickly as your thoughts. Touchstones shrink panic because stability in one area steadies the rest. Strength can mean staying put long enough to recover balance.

📚 18 – Ten books that helped my mind. Borrow steadier minds through reading when your own is noisy, and reread pages that calm the system. Build a small personal canon you can reach for at any hour. Let books model language for hope when your words won’t come.

🗣️ 19 – Words. Labels steer attention, so choose ones that widen possibility rather than trap it. Speak to yourself as you would to a friend facing the same day. Precise, gentle language lowers the temperature of hard moments.

💬 20 – Words (two). Keep a pocket set of phrases that slow spirals—short, clear, and repeatable. Replace harsh absolutes with time-bound statements that leave room to improve. Edit your inner script the way you would edit a page: cut cruelty, keep truth, add kindness.

❓ 21 – The power of why. Use writing to pull dark, wordless feelings into the open and then keep asking “why?” until surface wants—like a six‑pack—reveal deeper needs such as approval or belonging. Treat the process like a Socratic tunnel, moving through each answer with another honest why until the real motive appears. Writing, then, is a kind of seeing.

🧩 22 – The gaps of life. Imagine a room where objects are removed one by one; attention sharpens on what remains, down to the chess board you finally feel like playing. Loss narrows breadth but deepens appreciation, turning what’s left into something richer. What we lose in breadth we gain in depth.

🚫 23 – A few don’ts. Protect your energy by refusing false goals, hollow parties, and critics you’d never seek out for counsel. Say no when needed and build a small, honest tribe around values that last longer than trends. Don’t absorb criticism from people you wouldn’t go to for advice.

🧱 24 – Foundation. Let friendships form around your real self rather than a performance that can’t hold. Other people matter, but connection starts with showing up as you. In order to find the people who like you, it is first necessary to be you.

🟣 25 – Purple saxifrage. Resilience grows in harsh climates when fragile parts cluster and share shelter, like the Arctic’s low‑growing purple saxifrage. Survival here is communal, close to the ground, and stronger together. The hardiest plant in the world is the purple saxifrage.

🔗 26 – Connected. Well‑being spreads through simple acts that lift someone else, because our lives tug on each other in ways we see and don’t see. Helping others often loops back as the quickest route to feeling better ourselves. We are all connected in so many seen and unseen ways.

💡 27 – A thing I discovered recently. Quiet days—blueness of sky, birdsong over traffic, a single set of footsteps—can feel more alive than noise. Stillness becomes a heartbeat you can lean toward when nothing seems to be happening. I love stillness.

🍐 28 – Pear. Sideways momentum counts: take small, grateful pauses that exist for their own sake, like sitting on a sofa and eating a pear. Uncertain futures feel lighter when the present contains one simple pleasure. For instance, I just sat down and ate a pear.

🍞 29 – Toast. Overthinking the “meaning of life” can become its own distraction; sometimes the task is to participate, not analyze. Let ordinary rituals anchor you by being enjoyed, not decoded. It is sometimes better just to eat the toast.

🧆 30 – Hummus. Comfort can be a no‑cook gathering: chickpeas, tahini, garlic, lemon, and warm bread torn and shared. Mixing simple ingredients becomes a small communal ritual that steadies the day. Cooking can be therapeutic.

🌲 31 – There is always a path through the forest. When fear narrows vision, look for the next visible marker—one clearing, one bend, one blaze on a tree—and let small waypoints stitch into a route. Hope grows by acting on it, so keep moving even when the map is unclear. Treat detours as part of the passage rather than proof you’re lost.

🍕 32 – Pizza. Let ordinary pleasures count without needing to earn them; joy that is simple is still real. Share small comforts with others because companionship multiplies their effect. Taste is not improved by status, only by attention.

🗺️ 33 – A little plan. When energy is low, shrink the plan until it fits the day—one call, one chore, one walk. Put recovery tasks on the list so rest becomes a legitimate box to tick. A plan is permission to begin, not a contract to finish everything.

🪜 34 – Ladders. Stop treating life like a vertical race where worth comes from higher rungs; comparison turns ladders into traps. Measure progress against your previous step and pause on landings as needed. Climbing slowly in your direction beats racing up someone else’s.

❌ 35 – Life is not. Life is not a résumé, a leaderboard, or a permanent verdict on your worst moment. Refuse stories that reduce you to productivity, popularity, or perfection. If a definition makes living smaller, discard it.

✔️ 36 – Life is. Life is breath, relationships, change, and a stream of moments that matter because they are lived. Let meaning come from presence rather than performance. What counts is often quiet, local, and already here.

📖 37 – Chapter. Treat each phase like pages you can turn: endings create room for beginnings. Do not confuse a dark paragraph with the whole book. You can write a better next page by starting small today.

🚪 38 – Room. Protect space—on the calendar, in the home, inside the mind—so calm has somewhere to sit. Boundaries are doors you choose to open, not walls against the world. Clearing a corner often clears a thought.

🛑 39 – No. “No” is a complete sentence that returns time, energy, and attention to what matters. Use it to defend sleep, health, relationships, and unprogrammed hours. Every refusal is also an affirmation of a better yes.

🌀 40 – The maze. Expect dead ends, backtracks, and loops; confusion is part of learning the layout. When panic rises, slow down, trace your path, and try the next corridor rather than demanding a bird’s‑eye view. A way forward usually appears after one more calm turn. 🌳 41 – Knowledge and the forest. Learn the terrain so fear shrinks; understanding depression, illness, climate change, or injustice gives leverage like knowing a forest’s paths. Sun Tzu’s “know your enemy” pairs with Juliane’s Amazon survival—wading in streams to avoid snakes, keeping to midwater to avoid piranhas, and following a path to human voices on the eleventh day—to show how knowledge sustains action. Without knowledge of our difficulties, we would be in trouble.

🪟 42 – Minds and windows. Self‑awareness falters when the mental “window” is smudged; thoughts can lie and narrow the scene. Check the pane—fatigue, anxiety, or a single harsh comment can tint the view—before concluding the world is bleak. But that doesn’t mean the view you see through the window is the full view.

☯️ 43 – A paradox. Feeling like an outsider is widespread, which turns the sense of not belonging into common ground rather than a verdict. Naming impostor feelings loosens them because many people quietly carry the same doubt. That one of the most common feelings among people was the feeling of not fitting in among people.

🛣️ 44 – Crossroads. Urgency is not wisdom; speed and decisiveness are different skills at a junction. Pause at the lights, check the map, and choose the road that aligns with values rather than momentum. After all, movement isn’t progress if we are heading in the wrong direction.

😊 45 – Happiness. Contentment arrives when expectations drop away and self‑acceptance opens the door. Let identity be chosen, not performed; the feeling is a warm breeze through an open room. Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance.

🌼 46 – One beautiful thing. Train attention to notice one bright point each day—a poem, a favorite song, the sky before sunset, or lemon drizzle cake. Even in hard seasons, small wonders count and recalibrate mood. Just give yourself one simple reminder that the world is full of wonders.

🌱 47 – Growth. Hard times expand capacity because growth equals change, often triggered by discomfort. When pain passes, a larger interior remains that can hold more life. Space we can fill with life itself.

🍝 48 – Pasta. Protect joy from perfectionism; no standard of looks is worth denying simple nourishment and pleasure. Eat the pasta and let well‑being include shared meals and ease. No physical appearance is worth not eating pasta for.

🎲 49 – How to be random. Existence rests on staggering chance—an art student in Vienna in 1938 catching the last train to France, wartime nursing during the Blitz, and later choices that set two parents on intersecting paths in Sheffield and Bristol. Holding that randomness softens perfectionism and invites gratitude for improbable life. When I am in search of some evidence of the freak randomness of my existence, I think of the generations directly above me.

🔮 50 – The future is open. Hope doesn’t need a crystal ball; it needs trust in possibility and action toward kinder versions of tomorrow. Treat uncertainty as creative space rather than threat, and keep moving toward the better world. The future is open.

🧘 51 – Being, not doing. Let worth come from presence rather than productivity, so a day can be good even when nothing is accomplished on paper. Practice noticing your body, breath, and relationships as ends in themselves instead of items on a checklist. Choose rest without apology so energy returns for the moments that truly call for you.

✂️ 52 – Short. Keep guidance short enough to remember under stress, like a pocket note you can see in one glance. Cut the mental clutter and focus on the next kind action, the next meal, the next walk. Brevity makes room for movement.

🥜 53 – Peanut butter on toast. Lean on small, reliable rituals when the world feels large, even if it is as simple as peanut butter on toast. Let taste, warmth, and texture anchor you in the present without asking for productivity in return. Shared at a table or eaten on the sofa, ordinary food can be a lifeline.

II

🌊 54 – River. Treat moods and circumstances like a river: flowing, changing, impossible to step into the same way twice. Loosen your grip and move with the current you have today while steering gently toward safer banks. Flow beats force when you’re trying to get unstuck.

🚧 55 – Dam. Bottled feelings build pressure like water behind a dam until cracks show up elsewhere. Release a little at a time—talk, tears, writing, a slow run—so the structure holds. Controlled flow is safer than trying to hold everything back.

✨ 56 – Elements of hope. Rebuild hope from simple elements you can touch today: air in your lungs, light on a wall, clean water, a friend’s voice. Connect those pieces into a chain long enough to cross the bad hours. Hope thrives when it is practical, embodied, and shared.

⌫ 57 – Delete the italics. Notice the mental italics that turn passing doubts into judgments—words like always, never, and not enough. Cross them out on paper or in your head and replace them with plain statements that leave room to grow. A calmer script leads to a calmer day.

🛠️ 58 – Tips for how to make a bad day better. Start with the basics: drink water, step outside, move your body, and put on clean clothes. Keep tasks tiny and specific, and contact one person who can lend steadiness without fixing you. Avoid drastic decisions until the weather inside changes.

💎 59 – The most important kind of wealth. Measure wealth in time, attention, and peace of mind rather than status items. Invest in sleep, friendship, and unhurried moments that cannot be repossessed by circumstance. Security grows from a settled inner life more than a swollen bank balance.

📌 60 – A reminder for the tough times. Bad hours are not the whole story, and they pass even when you think they won’t. Hold on to a few truths you believe on better days and act as if they are still real until feeling follows. Surviving today is enough for today. 🐟 61 – The goldsaddle goatfish. In Hawaiian waters, goldsaddle goatfish cluster so closely that a group appears as one large fish, reducing danger in the open sea. The lesson is simple: move together when threatened and let community blunt vulnerability. Togetherness is a rule of nature.

🌧️ 62 – Rain. Let difficult feelings fall without trying to police them into positivity because weather passes and so do moods. Stand steady, get soaked if you must, and remember storms end. You are the person experiencing the storm.

🦁 63 – Truth and courage and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. In 1862, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs named himself an “Urning,” then publicly fought criminalization and stood before the Congress of German Jurists in Munich despite jeers. Exile and censorship followed, yet his insistence on living openly helped seed a modern rights movement. His legacy today is immense.

📜 64 – Scroll your mind. Step away from feeds that parade lives you aren’t living and redirect attention to reasons your own life is worth inhabiting. Trade FOMO for gratitude by looking inward rather than at other people’s highlight reels. The only fear of missing out that matters is the fear of missing out on yourself.

🔁 65 – Current. Health isn’t a binary switch; expect ebbs, flows, and maintenance like tending a garden. Accepting recurrence lowers panic and keeps you from turning a wobble into a spiral. Accepting this is both discomforting and comforting.

🥲 66 – Good sad. Allow the soft ache of nostalgia to remind you that life contains warmth worth missing. That tenderness signals capacity for love, not failure to be happy. Do you ever get a kind of gentle sadness that almost feels good?

🦈 67 – Jaws and Nietzsche and death and life. Face mortality out loud—Ernest Becker’s insight and the unseen shark in *Jaws* both show how invisibility magnifies fear; naming it shrinks it. Meaning deepens because endings exist, as Nietzsche notes, so live the moments you have. Fear is not something to be ashamed of.

🤿 68 – Underwater. Life is only ever lived in the present, even when thinking about past or future. Practice enjoyment of this “now,” as Emily Dickinson and Thoreau point toward, without demanding every moment be extraordinary. It is always today.

📧 69 – I hope this email finds you well. Replace inbox anxiety with small blessings—sunlight, fruit, a poem—and let permission to be unfinished lighten the day. Kind wishes are a doorway out of urgency, even when things aren’t okay yet. I hope this email finds you far away from this email.

🔭 70 – A note on the future. Happiness doesn’t require guarantees; treating uncertainty as space for possibility keeps hope alive, as Alan Watts frames it. Demanding a calm sea before you sail only delays the voyage. The future sits there with pen in hand, refusing to sign that particular contract. ⚠️ 71 – Beware because. Stop tying your worth to a string of “because” statements that can be taken away—job titles, numbers, or applause. Let value be intrinsic so it doesn’t collapse when circumstances change. Build a life where reasons explain actions, not identity.

🙅 72 – Ten things that won’t make you happier. Chasing status, perfect bodies, endless productivity, and online approval produces a hunger that never ends. Treat these as mirages and redirect effort toward rest, connection, and meaning. Subtract what drains you before adding what helps.

🛡️ 73 – Check your armor. Protective habits that once kept you safe can start to isolate and exhaust you. Loosen rigid defenses—overwork, sarcasm, constant busyness—so closeness and calm can return. Choose gear that lets you move, not plate you in place.

👤 74 – A human, being. Let identity rest on being alive and present rather than constant improvement projects. Make space for idleness, conversation, and unpolished joy without turning them into goals. Existence does not need a performance review.

☔ 75 – You are waterproof. Storms can soak you without washing you away, so focus on shelter, warmth, and patience instead of controlling the weather. Feel the feelings and let them pass like rain over a good coat. Resilience grows by practicing recovery, not by never getting wet.

🕯️ 76 – Candle. One small light changes the room, so start with a single helpful act when everything feels dark. Text a friend, make tea, read a page—proof that agency still exists. A tiny flame is enough to see the next step.

👜 77 – A bag of moments. Collect small memories you can reach for on hard days—laughter in a kitchen, a walk at dusk, a favorite song in an empty room. Replaying them isn’t escapism; it’s maintenance for hope. Stock your mind like a travel bag before the weather turns.

💝 78 – Your most treasured possession. Guard attention and time like valuables, because every experience is spent in those currencies. Spend them on people and practices that return energy with interest. Don’t mortgage your day to things you don’t actually value.

🐺 79 – Wolf. Feed the parts of you that make life wider—curiosity, kindness, and courage—by giving them practice and company. Starve the habits that shrink your world by refusing them repetition. What grows is what you repeatedly choose.

🔥 80 – Burn. Let perfectionism and old scripts burn away so there’s room for simpler, kinder living. Keep enough fire for warmth and purpose, not for self‑scorching. Lighten the load by letting some things go to ash.

🏛️ 81 – Virtue.

🌲 82 – An asymmetric tree is one hundred percent a tree.

🫶 83 – You are more than your worst behavior.

🧣 84 – Warm.

💭 85 – Dream.

🔍 86 – Clarity.

🧪 87 – The importance of weird thinking.

🌤️ 88 – Outside.

🤯 89 – Realization.

🌍 90 – The way out of your mind is via the world.

🪶 91 – Joy Harjo and the one whole voice.

🧥 92 – Protection.

⚛️ 93 – Quantum freedom.

👥 94 – Other people are other people.

↩️ 95 – Wrong direction.

⚙️ 96 – Applied energy.

🧹 97 – Mess.

🏹 98 – Aim to be you.

☕ 99 – Cup.

🍒 100 – Pomegranate.

🎶 101 – Let it be.

IV

☁️ 102 – The sky.

🌟 103 – Watch the stars.

♾️ 104 – The universe is change.

⛓️ 105 – The Stoic slave.

🐛 106 – Caterpillar.

🌡️ 107 – Experience.

🌬️ 108 – A bit about breathing.

🫁 109 – What your breath tells you.

🏕️ 110 – Live in the raw.

👀 111 – Honest seeing.

⏳ 112 – Wait.

🤝 113 – The cure for loneliness.

🧵 114 – Patterns.

😬 115 – The discomfort zone.

📦 116 – Stuff.

🎬 117 – Ferris Bueller and the meaning of life.

🎞️ 118 – Films that comfort.

⚪ 119 – Negative capability.

🌿 120 – Why break when you can bend?

🫂 121 – We have more in common than we think.

🤍 122 – Forgiveness.

🙇 123 – A note on introversion.

🛌 124 – Resting is doing.

🕵️ 125 – Mystery.

🌫️ 126 – The comfort of uncertainty.

🛸 127 – Portal.

🔓 128 – Nothing is closed.

📏 129 – The bearable rightness of being.

🪢 130 – Reconnection.

📝 131 – A note on joy.

🪙 132 – A spinning coin.

❤️‍🔥 133 – You are alive.

1️⃣ 134 – One.

2️⃣ 135 – One (two).

🔋 136 – Power.

🌾 137 – Growing pains.

👹 138 – How to look a demon in the eye.

🗓️ 139 – Remember.

↔️ 140 – Opposites.

💔 141 – Love/despair.

🌅 142 – Possibility.

🗝️ 143 – The door.

🎉 144 – The messy miracle of being here.

🙏 145 – Acceptance.

🕰️ 146 – Basic nowness.

🐋 147 – How to be an ocean.

🔼 148 – More.

🔚 149 – End.

Background & reception

🖋️ Author & writing. Haig—also known for The Midnight Library—assembled the book from notes, lists, and brief reflections written across years, aiming to console his “future self” and readers alike. He says he wrote it in the first English lockdown while “in an anxiety dip,” and deliberately kept the structure loose so people could read out of order. Public-radio interviews the week of publication likewise emphasised its origins in mental-health journaling and its mixture of short forms. The publisher describes it as drawing on history, science, philosophy, and personal experience to invite steadier attention and self-acceptance rather than step-by-step “programs.”

📈 Commercial reception. The publisher reports an instant *New York Times* bestseller debut in the U.S., and the UK publisher reports an instant No. 1 on *The Sunday Times* list. In trade reporting, *The Bookseller* noted that Richard Osman led the UK 2021 e-book chart with Haig’s The Comfort Book in second place, based on Bookstat data. A week after publication, *The Bookseller* also reported the title topping Amazon’s Most-Sold Non-Fiction chart. A special “Winter Gift Edition” from Canongate followed later in 2021.

👍 Praise. *The Independent*’s “Books of the Month” called Haig a “sensitive, introspective and thoughtful guide,” highlighting uplifting tales and curated lists that reinforce acceptance. Ireland’s public broadcaster *RTÉ* described the book as a “soothing collection” of “islands of hope.” In an in-brief assessment for *The Guardian*, the reviewer observed that admirers would see it as “profound, witty and uplifting… a stirring testament to hope and the imagination.”

👎 Criticism. *Kirkus Reviews* judged the collection “a handful of pearls amid a pile of empty oyster shells,” noting that many entries are only a few sentences long. *The Guardian*’s in-brief piece said the book would “both inspire and irritate,” suggesting some readers might find it “trite and banal.” Beyond the book itself, *The Spectator* ran a critical essay earlier in 2021 arguing “Life is hard; make it easier on yourself by not reading Matt Haig,” reflecting ongoing debate about his popular self-help style.

🌍 Impact & adoption. The *Washington Post* included the book in its “Best feel-good books of 2021,” positioning it as a mainstream comfort read during the pandemic era. Actor Jonathan Bailey named it among his “10 Essentials” for *GQ*, calling it “like a Bible of really lovely little titbits… like a cuddle,” which boosted visibility with a broader audience. Trade coverage of strong chart performance on Amazon and in UK e-books further indicates wide adoption among general readers.

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