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Originally Posted by jhowell
Those appear to be fixed-layout books. That format is generally unsupported by Amazon's Kindle Previewer so a failure to convert is not surprising. Amazon's tool for handling fixed-layout books is Kindle Create. It is a manual process. There is a bit of information about using its output with this plugin to produce KFX in the Converting Comics and Manga section of the first post in this thread, however it is probably not worth the effort to do that.
Calibre does not support fixed-layout books. How they display using it is hit or miss.
Send to Kindle works differently from the Kindle Previewer and is likely the best way to get those books on to a Kindle.
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In my experience if Kindle Previewer fails to convert to KFX, so will Send To Kindle: it will send 'conversion failure' message and then convert it to fixed layout AZW3. AZW3 doesn't support panel view or virtual panels IIRC, page flip etc.
If you want KFX (e.g. for side loading), and it is in fact comic/manga (i.e. just a sequence of page images), then you need to use Kindle Create after extracting the images (export images using calibre editor).
Kindle Create will also let you add ToC, define panel view (or zero time consuming option 'virtual panels'), and make sure facing pages are properly associated for spreads (if spreads are composed from two separate page images).
Fixed layout ePub which include a text layer for one or more pages are more problematic. I don't know of a way to convert them to a fixed layout KFX equivalent, though such a format does exist (distinct from print replica or comic/manga/kids format). Probably best is to convert to AZW3 for side loading (or use Send To Kindle). I think calibre will handle this conversion okay but have not tried it lately.