Personally, I can also recommend Philip Turetzky's Time for those interested in the question "What is Time?" from a philosophical (rather than a physical) POV. The book is a survey of thinking about Time from the ancient Greeks through the 20th century. It is not light reading, but no philosophy PhD is needed if you read it carefully.
One could argue that a large part of a philosophy PhD is learning to read carefully.
"I find that a much more comforting idea" is not the most compelling argument I've ever heard.