Originally Posted by Hitch
Yes, we have used it, and found it to be completely out of whack with what's really going to be seen on the devices, particularly if you are doing other than vanilla books. My company has done ~3500 eBooks, so while that doesn't mke us equal to Amazon, by any stretch, we do have some experience in the matter.
I find that by and large, Previewer STILL works best, if you cannot afford to buy devices (there's a good marketplace in used ones, btw). We have, in-house, a K2, a K3, KKeyboard, a first-gen K4, Paperwhite, Oasis, Voyager, Fire, FireHD, HDX 8.9", and of course, 2-3 Kindle for PCs, 1 K4Mac, 2K4Droid devices, a Win8Tablet (yet another Kindle For....reader, seriously), and oh, yeah, I nearly forgot, two iPads (one first-gen and a much newer one, due to first-gen bugs) and an iPhone. That's just for Amazon. We have another host of devices for testing ePUB.
The thing with "send to Kindle" has been that for a long while, the "send to Kindle" app used the email service, the old PDocs service, and what you got out was a KF7 eBook, not a KF8 mobi. Amazon wrongly and erroneously refers to this as xferring via "wifi," but it's not really doing that; it's still sending it to the PDocs service (or, at least, the mail-to-kindle service). I tested this recently, due to some issues, between Amazon and us, about embedded fonts, and I was still seeing a KF7 version of the file in question. That's hardly an accurate view.
Hope that helps.
Hitch
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