I published a couple of books for the project during a sabbatical in 2021 (The Devil's Dictionary [0] and a cheesy, small H. Beam Piper book named Four-Day Planet).<p>The process and tools are quite nice and it's very rewarding to see your work in ebook form. It takes a _long_ time to proof and re-read a book, but it's surprising how many times you can do this and how differently you need to read to catch errors versus just enjoying the damn book.<p>The fascinating part of the project is a _strong_ editorial opinion, which IMO makes the project successful. There is a core group of people that upholds the standards for the project, and the resulting consistency of quality of output derives from that. The team clearly cares about the quality, and has demonstrably maintained that over the huge number of releases.<p>I even went to the archives of the "San Francisco Newletter and California Advertiser" to collect some of Bierce's original work, making it the most complete, and most corrected open-source version of the book. [1] The one previously hosted by Project Gutenburg was quite old and, frankly, quite riddled with transcription errors.<p>I haven't tried reading the Devil's Dictionary back-to-back since I published it, but I might one day. There's a lot of detail in this work that I never saw until I had it under a microscope.<p>[0] <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ambrose-bierce/the-devils-dictionary" rel="nofollow">https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ambrose-bierce/the-devils-...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://archive.org/details/san-francisco-newletter-dec-11-1875" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/san-francisco-newletter-dec-11-1...</a>