Ultimate Way to Remove NOOK DRM with 100% Success

Update:

As of 11/29/2023, the Nook Windows app is no longer available for book downloads. Hence, use Epubor Nook Converter to decrypt Nook ebooks and audiobooks. Here's the video tutorial:

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John R Mead

Re:Ultimate Way to Remove NOOK DRM with 100% Success

03/5/2019 12:25:36

It is still possible to obtain the pre-app Nook software via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

It still works for accessing Nook ePubs, and autiomatically downloads them.

Unfortunately, ePubor's commenting system considers a link to the Wayback Machine to be spam, so I cannot post the link here.

The last backup I found was from February 11, 2012, so searching the Wayback Machine using the Barnes & Noble/Nook URL, and going to that date, and searching for the page with links to the Nook software should do the job.

Manuel

Re:Ultimate Way to Remove NOOK DRM with 100% Success

04/24/2019 10:52:39

NOOK study stopped working, you can not log in, until now there is nothing to remove the drm of Nook books

Cuong Hoang

Re:Ultimate Way to Remove NOOK DRM with 100% Success

09/22/2019 16:29:53

When will this new software be released?

Ben Dover

Re:Ultimate Way to Remove NOOK DRM with 100% Success

09/24/2019 09:48:30

After reading the whole page, I finally got to the bottom where the "Notice" says the DRM can no longer be removed from Nook. And you can't generate a new key using the DeDRM plugin in Calibre because it won't retrieve the key from the B&N login. I looked at all the info in the AppData area for the Nook Win10 app and none of the info seems to be a loadable key (*.b6). All avenues seem to be closed. What a waste of time... and I won't be wasting more time buying anything from B&N again. I wish I had backed up my books earlier.

Epubor

Re:Ben Dover

09/29/2019 08:51:19

Hi there,
Thank you for leaving the comments. For the nook drm removing, please contact our customer service (support@epubor.com)to get further assistance. Our customer service will help you back up your purchased nook books.

Alice

Re:Ultimate Way to Remove NOOK DRM with 100% Success

12/23/2019 18:47:54

What a total waste of time, money and energy. I'm retired, sold my car because I no longer able to drive because of a medical condition. Perhaps its' partly my fault for not researching/checking prior to using a B&N $50 gift card towards ebooks that I can't read on my kindle (tried converting with alfs dedrm plugin in calibre-did'nt work)I could have saved me the extreme hassle by using public transportation and travel the 62 miles to my nearest B&N and purchased hard copies instead. To add insult to injury, the B&N customer service rep had the gall to suggest I purchase one of their Nook ereaders instead.
I will never buy anything from B&N ever again.

Epubor

Re:Alice

12/27/2019 09:01:38

I am so sorry for this. But if you can send us your nook account and passwords , we can remove the drm from this nook book for you. Please contact me via epubor.iris@gmail.com

Pamela Brown

Re:Ultimate Way to Remove NOOK DRM with 100% Success

06/9/2021 09:40:48

I purchased Epubor All DRM Removal, Epubor Ultimate, and received a Nook Key and still my Nook Books with DRM can't be removed. What else can I do? I don't want to waste any more money for something that doesn't work.

Matt

Re:Ultimate Way to Remove NOOK DRM with 100% Success

04/7/2025 08:52:25

Just bought the lifetime version of Epubor Ultimate. Still cannot de-drm my Nook manga, which I have a lot of. I wish I'd known Epubor didn't de-drm comics/manga before I shelled out the $60. Any idea how to fix this problem without spending more money?

Epubor

Re:Matt

04/7/2025 09:54:25

Thank you for using our software. We are sincerely sorry for this issue and our customer team has sent you the email about this issue. Please check your email box to get further assistance. Please Eoubor Ultimate only supports the nook books downloaded via Nook windows app.

Matt

Re:Epubor

11/9/2025 15:23:40

Just wanting to update this; I have had contact with epubor about this a couple of times since I made the original comment. I have at one point had someone ask if I would let them attempt to de-drm for me, which I accepted, but somehow I still had the exact same issue. I gave up and just accepted that my manga (comics) would just be trapped in nook hell for the rest of eternity; either I don't think I'm communicating the problem in a way that anyone can understand even when sending screenshots, or it's just not possible. I don't really know what it means when the reply says that epubor only de-drms books downloaded with the windows nook app, as my entire library was downloaded that way and the problem still persists. IF YOU HAVE COMICS OR MANGA WITH NOOK, YOU **WILL** **NOT** BE ABLE TO DE-DRM THEM WITH THIS SOFTWARE, AS FAR AS MY MONTHS OF ATTEMPTS CAN TELL ME.

Epubor

Re:Matt

11/10/2025 14:33:13

We've received your message and replied it. Epubor Ultimate doesn't support Nook pdf files. If your comics are in pdf format, yes, Epubor Ultimate cannot crack them.