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Originally Posted by Quoth
I've no idea, as I've never in over 10 years of eBooks, ever bought an ePub with DRM. All the ePubs I bought were DRM free. You don't need any application installed for the Kindle specific plug-in, just the serial number of the physical eink Kindle you bought the Amazon book for. Mobi or AZW files, not KFX, which work differently. Hence use Download to PC, not PC app on Amazon.
AFAIK, only with B&N do you need their Nook. You don't need any app for Amazon Kindle files downloaded for a real Kindle.
I mostly read on a Kobo, but I've no idea how Kobo files work. Even when I did use Windows XP and then Windows 7 and briefly Windows 10, I never used the Sony / Amazon / Kobo apps to transfer files. I did look at the Kindle app on Windows and removed it as spyware. Also I removed the Andriod Kindle app and and instead used various 3rd party epub apps. I only looked at the Sony program on windows to see how it read back annotations, it's ghastly. So I read annotations from Kobo in Calibre using the Kobo Utilities. Originally in Windows, now only on Linux.
I have a Nook Simple Touch to see how epubs look on it. Never installed any Nook applications, nor ever bought B&N books.
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B&N changed how they do things and what app now works. Most people cannot remove the DRM from a nook book. A nook book is a B&N ePub with or without DRM. Yes you can easily download an ePub from B&NM if it has no DRM using the Windows 10 app from the Microsoft Store. So it's not worth it to buy from B&N unless you buy ePub without DRM and have Windows 10. You cannot copy ePub downloaded from your nook ST because it's partitioned and you cannot see the partition for downloads. The nook line is a disaster as the firmware on all models is awful