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Originally Posted by bfollowell
I've never had a lot of luck using Kindle Previewer to convert my epubs to mobi. Using the newer version to convert from epub to KF8 seems to work great but it still doesn't achieve the results I want when converting to mobi. The main issue I have is it throwing off all the margins. For example, if a chapter title is supposed to be down about 10-20% from the top of the screen in the epub, after converting to mobi using the Kindle Previewer, the chapter title will be three or four lines or about 1-2" from the bottom of the screen. It really throws off the whole look of the book and is a big turn-off for me.
Using Calibre to convert my epubs to mobi is the only way to go for me. That's just me, of course.
- Byron
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The new Previewer/kindlegen has several different ways that you can provide different css for building the KF8 than is used to create the mobi portion.
Towards the bottom of the new Kindle Publishing Guidelines is the instructions (there's about four different methods) to implement this.
Now I can use one epub source and with a quick change to the CSS, build a KF8 with an optimized fall-back mobi. Life just got a lot simpler for me.