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Originally Posted by Sella174
So why then can I use external stylesheets (e.g. “text.css”) for each of the HTML files that are compiled by KindleGen into the mobi and are subsequently applied by the e-reader?
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You can do that with Sigil or Calibre Editor and you can see what the result of the CSS code is very easily. Your way you create the CSS, edit the HTML, run Kindlegen, see what you get and what you don't realize is you may very well NOT be seeing the Mobi. You may be seeing the KF8.
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Sigil, with all due respect to the programmers thereof, produces ePub files and as such does not add the “spices” to the files that KindleGen favours. If it did, then the ePub wouldn’t validate.
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That's just so wrong. ePub validates and then converts to Mobi no problem. What you get is how you made the ePub. When you use Kindlegen to make your Mobi, what you are getting is a dual-format eBook that contains both Mobi & KF8. If you use a Kindle that displays KF8, you see the KF8. If you use a Kindle that doesn't display KF8, you get Mobi. So there's a good chance you are not seeing Mobi. If you are using KindleforPC to look at your eBook, then you are just seeing KF8.
How are you selling your eBook? Is it through Amazon?