Eight months after the launch of the paperback of Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-knowing, the ebook edition has hit the virtual shelves.

It’s been lovely and humbling to see responses to the book so far. Prospect magazine called it ‘a genius move… In 12 short chapters it rips up the rules about reading and reminds us about fiction’s greatest strength: that it lets you step out of your life and, if you’re brave, out of your safe literary spaces.’ The Big Issue said it is ‘a fascinating exploration of the reading process, what it can achieve and how it shapes us’. Meanwhile, in the cover story of The Times Literary Supplement earlier this year, Christy Edwall wrote: ‘What matters most to [Morgan], laudably, is creating the conditions in which her readers will “view reading as a more active, connected, and radical pastime.”’

There have been some wonderful endorsements from fellow international literature champions and authors, too. These include: superstar translator and author Anton Hur; novelist, translator, professor and former English PEN president Maureen Freely; leading Irish novelist and international literature critic Rónán Hession; and award-winning writer and podcaster Daisy Buchanan.

It’s also really encouraging to know that the paperback is nearly sold out and recently entered its second printing, with a new double cover featuring some of these responses.

The ebook edition adds a fifth book jacket to Relearning to Read’s wardrobe (well, sixth, if you count the rogue 200 copies printed the wrong colour that we gave away through Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Jhalak Foundation), joining the three versions of the paperback, and the special Renard Press Edition that dashed out of print ahead of the paperback release last year. Unlike its printed siblings, the ebook cover shows words highlighted, as on an ereader screen. It’s available from all the usual places, while the last remaining first editions of the paperback can still be snaffled direct from Renard Press.

Many thanks to everyone who has helped give the book such a warm welcome. In the coming weeks, I’ll be taking the incomprehension workshop that inspired it to Cambridge University and Belfast, with events planned in Cheltenham, Sandgate and Southwold later this year. Maybe I’ll see you there?