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Woooah, proofread is not as easy as it seems, trust me. Especially if you don't actually read the book while doing it. On the other hand most people don't even notice mistakes in ebooks and would read a terrible scan as long as it's full and free.
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If you can proof-read a large book in 2 to 3 days, I'm impressed. It takes me 2 to 3 months to properly proof-read one of my Dickens uploads, working at it a couple of hours a day.
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Let me clarify my "solidly proof-read". As tompe said, these novels have actually been proofread before, so this is about looking and eliminating OCR errors. After (legally) scanning about 100 novels in the past six years, I tend to know my "usual suspects" errorwise. This speeds up progress quite a lot.
And "solidly" means "sufficient for an illegal version". Nobody in the eBookz scene expects a copy without errors, though even there the self-imposed standard is relatively high, at least among the active German scene.
I just finished my own translation of Robert E. Howard's "Almuric", which will be given two complete runs of proof-reading before being released here. And if v.1 still has some work to do, v.2 will show some improvements. It's not as if it's printed on paper or carved in stone.