Kindle, Kobo, NOOK, Adobe Digital Editions, and Google Play Books can be decrypted in one program: Epubor Ultimate. It’s actually pretty easy to do, but piracy is immoral and illegal in principle, so if you want to remove DRM of an eBook, it should be just used to back up your own purchased digital library. The mainstream eBook stores like Amazon, Kobo, Google Play Books, Barnes and Noble did make some effort on anti-piracy, but that never stop people from cracking encrypted eBooks. You can use this similar way to know about the DRM of a Google Play eBook. Look at the Download option from eBook Details, if Adobe DRM is shown between parentheses, the book has DRM if DRM-free is shown, then surely it doesn’t have DRM. Have a visit on the website, type and search for the book, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page. The purpose of Digital Rights Management (DRM) is to protect the content owner and prevent unauthorized sharing of ebooks. kepub format can’t be imported to Calibre, but you can easily tell from the Kobo eBook details that whether it has DRM. Incidentally, the converted book will be stored by default in C:\Users\USERNAME\Calibre Library. Select the book and click on “Convert books” in calibre, if this window pop-up automatically, you can clearly know that this book has DRM.
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Drop the book (Kindle book, Nook book, etc.) to calibre. If you get an error message “This book has DRM”, then the book is locked by DRM. If you can convert the book to another format in Calibre, then the book is DRM-free.
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Calibre supports files includes EPUB books, Kindle books, PDF books, HTML books, LIT books, text books, comics, archives, Word processor files. The most direct way to tell if a book has DRM is to open the book with an eBook manager that supports almost all the files. The Fastest Way to Tell if an Ebook is Locked by DRM
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