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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.

Thanks, appreciate the guidance. I'll leave it alone.

Originally Posted by jhowell

Calibre does not support fixed-layout books. How they display using it is hit or miss.

Good to know.

Originally Posted by jhowell

Send to Kindle works differently from the Kindle Previewer and is likely the best way to get those books on to a Kindle.

Okay, glad it works for these books. For whatever reason it does not work for this book, though this book is not advertised as working for e-readers unlike the other two. It does work in Apple Books.

Originally Posted by jhowell

No problem. This is the right place for your question.

Thanks again!

Originally Posted by tomsem

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.

Thanks, but converting this book to AZW3 also produces weird results in Calibre. Glad it at least works by Send to Kindle, in Apple Books and in Readest.

Originally Posted by DNSB

FLO ePubs converted by calibre are not usable. I haven't tried one through StK.

Good to know. I stocked up on some Fixed Layout ebooks to read to my daughter while traveling and didn't realize they would be so much more difficult to read/convert.