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I can see both sides of the equation, here. While too many errors will throw me off my game and can cause me to stop reading a particular book (and will perhaps cause me to ask for a refund if the issues are egregious enough), I also understand that publishers are never going to throw new-book resources at backlist conversion projects.
Expecting them to have each and every backlist title carefully converted to electronic format, and then lovingly proofed and corrected (and proofed again) by a human eyes from cover-to-cover isn't really realistic. Doing so would result in an ebook no one could afford to buy. They already sunk those expenses into the original print-only publication.
So I think everyone is basically doing what they're supposed to be doing. Publishers are getting backlist titles to market for a price people will be willing to pay, and readers (hopefully) are teaching them what kind of quality they expect for those prices.
I've found the occasional error/typo in nearly every book I've ever read (p and e). So OCR errors don't really anger me any more than the "normal" ones do. It's strictly the frequency of the errors that will decide if I can continue (or if I should ask for a refund), rather than the kind of error.
To be perfectly honest: missed grammatical errors in new release books will get my dander up quicker than OCR errors in a backlist title will. And I find those all the time too. *shrug*
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