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It's amazing how many settings you can configure in Convert to make the changes you want to make. My converted files come out looking great, but I took the time to learn more about the settings, especially under Look and Feel - Styling and Transform. Convert actually fixes more things than it breaks, and if your settings are configured correctly, there should be no damage to your files from running Convert.
I've saved tons of time, with superb results. I just wish Convert would automatically fix certain errors that it will automatically fix when running Check Book (like the ID and mimetype errors).
I run the Modify plugin first to do many things, and then I run Convert to do the rest. Then I run the editor to check the book and automatically fix the errors, then I'll manually fix the errors that have to be done manually, and then I'll edit the TOC in either the editor or will usually run the TOC plugin to fix multiple epub files. Then I'll use the EpubMerge plugin to create omnibuses and repeat the above steps on the omnibus file. The results are fantastic and are especially great for e-readers and devices that have no default formatting.
There are always files that are poorly coded, so I will spend time manually reformatting some of them. Actually, almost every epub has something wrong with it, but the modify and convert (with the proper settings) will fix most of the problems,, depending on how well the file was created.
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