diff --git a/hts-sys/src/lib.rs b/hts-sys/src/lib.rs
index 8573f0f1e..1f3766a58 100644
--- a/hts-sys/src/lib.rs
+++ b/hts-sys/src/lib.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 #![allow(clippy::all)]
 #![allow(improper_ctypes)]
 //! This module exposes the raw [HTSlib](https://github.com/samtools/htslib) bindings.
+//! Instead of using this crate directly, it is recommended to use [rust-htslib](https://docs.rs/rust-htslib) instead,
+//! which has a more idiomatic and high-level API and builds on top of hts-sys.
 
 #[cfg(feature = "bzip2")]
 extern crate bzip2_sys;