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Originally Posted by HarryT
Kindlegen is a tool aimed at publishers, not end users. Command-line tools are far better suited for automated workflow tasks than GUI applications - they can be scripted and run automatically. It has nothing to do with "restricting the freedoms of their customers".
It is, by the way, a Windows application: it's a Windows CONSOLE application.
Console apps have nothing to with "DOS".
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And, FWIW:
- You can simply drag-and-drop an html or ePUB file onto "kindlegen.exe" and it will make the mobi; AND,
- Previewer is a GUI Windows-based Kindlegen.
- You can use either.
That's it. Nothing "command-line" about either usage. As HarryT rightly pointed out, these are publisher tools, not end-user tools. Now with the advent of K8, it's likely that even more self-pubs will complain about the lack of "GUI" tools to make MOBI, IMHO.
Hitch