For what it's worth, the use case that caused me to finally "get" chatbots was as a support while reading the Aubrey-Maturin series. The first conversation in my Claude history is me asking it "Compare the relative strengths of cannon and carronades. Which was more accurate?"

(But if you prefer a book, https://www.amazon.com/Patrick-OBrian-Muster-Book-Aubrey-Mat... is very useful.)