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Of course it depends what one is aiming to achieve. I can churn out perfectly readable eBooks of the stuff I read "just for fun" in half an hour, but what I'm doing with my Dickens at the moment is literally doing word-by-word and comma-by-comma comparisons against "Google Books" page scans and my own printed editions in an effort to produce "definitive" eBook editions, and that takes literally weeks of effort for one book, working at it several hours a day.
You need to decide what your personal goals are in producing a particular book - scholarly completeness of every comma, or just something that's perfectly acceptable to read for fun; the vast majority of my eBook output falls into the latter category; I just have certain authors I give the "full treatment" to for the sake of my own literary interests.
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