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The flow is actually from Distributed Proofreaders to Project Gutenberg. The texts at DP are in the process of being corrected. When they are finished they are moved to PG and released. The newer texts contain far fewer errors than the older texts. They do issue corrections from time-to-time on the older texts.
As for the posting of many books in one day, Patricia and I (among others) are reviewing what we have posted before and making those texts available in eBookwise and Mobipocket editions where before we had posted only the Sony LRF and perhaps the Mobipocket.
Just because we may post a large number of books in one day does not mean that we have not taken the time to work on the text prior to posting. I will often gather a group of what I plan to post, review and correct as needed, and convert to the final formats before I even start to post. What I have done at other times is to get the material ready and then post as I create the final formats. It may take me several days to post the entire series such as Andrew Lang's Fairy Stories of Many Colors. (12 books, each in 3 formats, posted from 27 Sept 2007 to 01 Oct 2007)
Others like the Harvard Classics took months of research to find the original texts, work with image copies, convert through OCR, correct OCR, look at versions, etc. It was worth the effort. This series was posted over a period of months as each volume was completed.
Patricia has corrected and produced a wonderful collection of Voltaire. The range and depth of her ebooks is staggering. Harry has made some of the best ebooks I have ever read. He spends a great deal of time on each volume making it just right. His Sherlock Holmes Omnibus has stayed on my Reader since I first loaded it the day he posted it. In other volumes he has added material that you would not expect. For example, in his version of She in the Haggard Anthology Volume 2 the original PG text identified by name the Greek letters on a piece of pottery. Harry inserted the correct Ionic Greek letter which made the story that much more alive.
Many of the classics from the Sony store are poor quality texts that are machine converted to BBeB format. Often times with large white space margins and far too small type that even at the "L" setting is hard to read. (This is also true for many of the current bestsellers offered by Sony.)
As Patricia said, if we have errors in our books, tell us and we will do what we can to correct them.
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