Never having to think about the topic again

These days Rachel Toor’s reflections in “How Academics Measure the Value of Their Books” come back to my mind as I progress (slowly!) on my manuscript. Particularly this one: among the many different definitions of success for an academic book, most of them unrelated to sales, your definition of success

might be finishing a manuscript that took far longer than planned. The idea of never having to think about the topic again can be cause for celebration…