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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
It seems perverse to choose anything other than Kindle Previewer to convert an epub.
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Unless it's strictly for personal use and you find you get results closer to your expectations (not giving a hoot for the code under the hood because no one other than you is ever going to see it) with almost zero learning curve. Not to mention having no use for a giant output file that contains the ebook in two different formats along with a repeat of the source material (that you already have) included.
So while I agree that if you have any intention of distributing your ebook through official channels, it would be silly to use anything other than the official tools to convert the epub. But if someone wants to do a quick format shift just to read something on a new/different device, I can see Kindlegen/Previewer as being unnecessary overhead actually. In cases like that, the convenience of using the integrated converter feature of a program that they're already using to manage their ebook library (and to put the content on their device) is pretty hard to write off as "perverse."