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When I convert one of my own books, knowing and working with my own source material, doing the work myself, I still find it takes most of a 24-hour day to do all the work properly. Most of this is eaten up in page-by-page checking for formatting errors at each stage, compounded by the fact that I am creating 6 different formats of one book, each requiring a different set of steps to accomplish, and source files customized for each one to start with.
Unfortunately, I rushed The Lens through production and missed a lot of simple errors and typos, meaning I am now doing it all again. Yes, it's a pain, and worth the trouble only to the extent that you care about giving your consumers a quality product. (In fact, I'll be sending Revision 1 out to everyone who's already bought the original, so they'll have the clean copy. Get a print publisher to do that!) In hindsight, I should have waited until after Read an E-Book week was over to do a proper final check on the material before conversion.
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