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Calibre guesses where the chapters are and Sigil does not, so that is not so time saving. But calibre can guess wrong. As Ripplinger noted, you can search for "chapter" with search and mark them with a h tag and be done in 5-10 minutes, for that. Actually you can stay in book view and just scroll down the page and highlight and press the h tag buttons. While in the process, please press control enter at the end of each chapter so it will work on my Sony Reader and not be terribly slow on every else's.
BUT that is just the beginning with the OCRed material at archive. It is necessary to go through the whole book and check for what will be hundreds of errors and even whole sections out of place, especially if the book is laid out in columns and has illustrations. R will be E and e will be c, etc. Footnotes that run over one page also give headaches for non fiction books.
By the time you do your job well in converting them, you won't want to read the book for 6 months because you will have been over it so many times.
Even if someone has done a lot of hard work, such as at Hyperwar, you will still spend a long time picking up after their work. Some have an extreme affinity for ordered lists and turn abc into 123 and 12345678 into 12341234 because they happened to hit a page break.
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