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StevePoling · 12-17-2025, 05:25 PM

I bought American Paladin: Dust Sacrifice via Kickstarter. When it came in I got a link to download the ebook to my laptop. I imported it into my library managed by Calibre. I can read it fine on my Mac.

Heretofore I've used Calibre to send my ebooks to my USB-connected Kindles. I did so to my Kindle Colorsoft and my Kindle Scribe, but in each case the Kindle would show the ebook in my library, but give up after a few minutes of trying to open it. (I tried both epub and azw3 formats.) I have had no problem loading other ebooks. I figure it is b/c this is a graphics-heavy ebook.

Or Amazon is just screwing over its customers again.

So I tried emailing the ebook to my Kindle. No joy, the file is 463MB and mail clients refuse to send so large a file. I tried using a 3rd party download links and that didn't work, either.

Has anyone figured out how to send graphic novels/mange to a Kindle? Or any similarly sized ebook? Or should I just conclude that the Kindle is useless for reading such ebooks? (I did manage to get Apple's book app to send it to my iPad. It works there, but I prefer e-ink displays.)

12-17-2025, 05:25 PM	#1
StevePoling Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: SONY PRS-505	How do I send my graphic novel to my Kindle? I bought American Paladin: Dust Sacrifice via Kickstarter. When it came in I got a link to download the ebook to my laptop. I imported it into my library managed by Calibre. I can read it fine on my Mac. Heretofore I've used Calibre to send my ebooks to my USB-connected Kindles. I did so to my Kindle Colorsoft and my Kindle Scribe, but in each case the Kindle would show the ebook in my library, but give up after a few minutes of trying to open it. (I tried both epub and azw3 formats.) I have had no problem loading other ebooks. I figure it is b/c this is a graphics-heavy ebook. Or Amazon is just screwing over its customers again. So I tried emailing the ebook to my Kindle. No joy, the file is 463MB and mail clients refuse to send so large a file. I tried using a 3rd party download links and that didn't work, either. Has anyone figured out how to send graphic novels/mange to a Kindle? Or any similarly sized ebook? Or should I just conclude that the Kindle is useless for reading such ebooks? (I did manage to get Apple's book app to send it to my iPad. It works there, but I prefer e-ink displays.)