Hope to remove DRM from EPUB books with freeware for reading EPUB on more popular devices? Now this guide will show you how to remove DRM from EPUB Calibre.

1. Remove DRM from EPUB Calibre
Posted by Ada Wang on 1/5/2015 11:27:10 PM.
DRM-protected EPUB books can be freely accessed on many popular devices,
like Nook, Sony, Kobo, Google, etc. But if you want to read them on iDevices,
such as iPad or iPhone, you have to install another EPUB reading app on your
device. That's really inconvenient. So how to deal with this problem? Just by
removing DRM from your EPUB books, you can directly read them in your
iBooks without restrictions. Besides, by removing DRM from EPUB, you can
actually own your EPUB books and make a backup for all your EPUB books.
You don't need to worry about losing them any more.
We all know that Calibre is a good ebook management tool which can convert
ebooks into many other formats. Calibre itself can't remove DRM restriction,
but we can install another dedrm plugin for Calibre to get your problem
solved. So this article aims to show you how to remove DRM from EPUB
Calibre. Don't worry if you have found Calibre a little complicated or even
don't work with your EPUB books. I will also provide another wonderful tool
for you in the last.
Now just follow me to remove DRM from EPUB books with this free tool.
Step1: Install Calibre and DeDRM plugin
1Install Calibre
Calibre is a totally freeware. You can directly visit this website to download
and install the proper version for your computer.

2. 2Install dedrm plugin for Calibre
It maybe a little complicated for you to install this tool, but please be patient
and you'will finally get things done.
Firstly, you should download the DeDRM Plugin V6.09 at here.
Secondly, run Calibre and click "Preferences" in the menu bar.
Thirdly, it will pop up a window for all the prefrences. In the "Advanced" item
at the bottom, hit "Plugins".
Fourthly, once you hit "Plugins" icon, it will pop up another window. Choose
"Load plugin from file".
Fifthly, find the DeDRM plugin you downloaded and click "Open". Calibre will
warn you about the security risk, click "Yes" to continue.

3. Sixthly, you can see the success notification at last.
Lastly, click "OK" in the sixth step and you will find the DeDRM plugin
contained in the "File type plugins" has been successfully installed.
Step 2: Remove DRM from EPUB Calibre
After you get the tool ready, now it's time to remove DRM from EPUB using
Calibre. However, you should find your EPUB books in your computer first. Or
if you have got acsm file, you should convert acsm to epub.

4. 1Find EPUB books or convert acsm to epub
For Sony and Kobo EPUB books:
You can get your sony EPUB books onto computer in two ways: sync via ADE
for PC/Mac, or download .acsm file and convert to EPUB with Adobe Digital
Editions.
For books via ADE, your books are saved in "My DocumentMy Digital
Eiditions" for Win and in "User[Your Usename]DocumentMy Digital
Eiditions" for Mac .
If you directly download Sony and Kobo EPUB books from Sony and Kobo
website, the books you get will be .acsm file. You can refer to this article to
convert ACSM to EPUB.
For Nook EPUB books:
Sync your Nook EPUB books via Nook for PC/Mac. You books are saved in
"My DocumentsMy Barnes & Noble eBooks" for Win and "Users/[Your
Username]/Documents/My Barnes & Noble eBooks/[your Nook registration
email]" for Mac.
2Start to remove DRM from EPUB Calibre
Restart Calibre and add your DRMed EPUB books into it. Often your EPUB
books will be decrypted automatically. For books already existed in Calibre
library, you should remove them from Calibre first and then add them back.
You can find your decrypted book by hitting "click to open".

5. Tips: Sometimes you may fail to remove DRM from books Calibre for some
reason or directly drop out.
If you find Calibre is a little complicated for you to handle with DRMed EPUB
books or you failed after several trial, you can try this tool, Epubor EPUB DRM
Removal which can easily help you remove DRM from EPUB books in batch
with high speeds. You can download it with 30 days free trial.
Download EPUB DRM Removal for free:
Related Reading
 Remove DRM from epub books, Nook Sony Kobo books
 Calibre DRM Removal Plugins
Ada Wang works for Epubor and writes articles for a collection of blogs such
as ebookconverter.blogspot.com.

6. This PDF is generated upon http://www.epubor.com/remove-drm-from-epub-
calibre.html, the original author is Epubor.