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Originally Posted by Heathside Boy
What I meant by this is; at the top of Calibre, there is an option to "Get Books." When you click on this and type the name of the book or author in the query bar, it brings up a list of books in various formats from various booksellers. For my particular book, I noticed there were three with a red padlock on them. The padlocks were locked. There was one for the Amazon DE Kindle, one for e-books.com (ePub for Digital Editor) and one from WH Smith UK (that was a paperback I think). There was also one there from Barnes & Noble Nook showing a blue circle with a white "?" on it.
When the cursor was hovered over the locked padlock and the Barnes & Noble blue circle, there was a notice telling me that this book may have DRM restrictions. What does this actually mean and can I get over it?
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It means that the ebook is encoded and only authorized programs on authorized machines may access any of the content in the ebook. Calibre by itself cannot read or write to DRM protected books. The only real way to "get over" DRM, is removing it, which may be illegal to do in your area. You can have the book in Calibre, and transfer it to other devices, but only an authorized nook, or an authorized copy of the nook software can do anything with it.
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Originally Posted by Heathside Boy
To give you more information, I have downloaded the "Nook for PC" interface. I typed in the name of the book and the author I wanted from the "Shop" section from within the Nook for PC interface. It brought up the book I wanted. It was telling me it was a "Nook Book" (eBook). I clicked on the particular book I wanted and it showed up with no problem from Barnes & Noble. There was a bright orange bar with the words "Buy Now" on it, so I clicked this and nothing happened. It would not let me buy this book. What is happening here and why can I not download this book? Do I need to download some other type of software for it to work and if so, what?
Thank you
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When I've tried the Nook windows app, it launched a web browser window, to let me buy. I clicked the Buy Now button, it then had a popover asking me to log in, I logged in, and then it had a popover asking for confirmation. Do you have an adblocker or something in your browser?