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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
Does Nook or B&N have their own DRM?
Or is what you bought DRM free? Since you could pull the images from the epub it sounds DRM free. Or Nook has really bad DRM.
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B&N had (has?) their own DRM. I bought the books when Barnes and Noble were using what they called 'social DRM' (the key was your last name and credit card number).
They've switched since then, but Alf can still strip it. I tested it by re-downloading a previously purchased book using the Nook for Windows 10 app and importing it into Calibre. It worked no problem. The biggest issue was figuring out what subfolder of a subfolder the Nook app stored the book in.
To be clear, I tried opening the epub in the B&N folder with Sigil and it said no-go due to DRM. I then added the book to Calibre, opened the Calibre version of the book and badda bing, badda boom. Sigil had no issues.
Incidentally, the graphic novels I mentioned
are sold DRM-free on ComiXology (Vietnam Journal published by Caliber Comics. Great series), but I believe B&N slapped their own crackable DRM on the epubs I got from them. At any rate, books from the big 5 have DRM and I was able to remove that as well.
And since B&N, Amazon and Kobo can all have their DRM stripped I guess they all have equally bad DRM and thank goodness for it.