Free NOOK Reading App- available for your iPhone, iPad, Android devices & Windows 8 tablets. Shop the Holiday Gift Guide; Top Toys of the Season. Bestsellers NOOK Top 100 NY Times Bestsellers. Browse Coming Soon New Releases NOOK Book Bundles NOOK Daily Find NOOK Foreign Language. The Kindle Fire is a dedicated Amazon e-book reader that runs on Android. The Fire uses its own.mobi format as well as Adobe PDFs, but it doesn't read books in the EPUB format. As a result, you may run into difficulty if you want to read Nook, Kobo, or Google eBooks. Those e-readers use EPUB format.

Related: The best way to ensure continued access to your ebooks – regardless of your chosen platform – is to save them onto a computer and open them out for general usage. Removing digital rights management (DRM) from your ebook files is useful for Nook users for a couple of reasons. For one thing, it means that you’ll be able to continue reading your Nook library on other e-readers when you come to replace your Nook. Conversely, you’ll be able to read ebooks from other sources (including Kindle) on your current Nook when the Nook store closes down. Here’s how you can do it.

Download Calibre There are a number of tools that serve to remove DRM from your ebooks, but undoubtedly the most popular and well-established is Calibre. • You can for Windows, OS X, or Linux. It’s free in each case, and you can donate funds to help the developer with its upkeep.

Run the Calibre app and create a new folder for saving your ebooks into (the default should be fine). Choose your ebook reader from the list, and hit Finish. Related: Add books and remove DRM Click on the ‘Add books’ button at the top left and browse through your files to add ebooks to your Calibre folder, or drag and drop them into Calibre’s main window. Tone2 electra2 download. Plug your device into your computer, and you’ll be able to import any books stored there, too. Of course, ebooks from sources such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble will be protected by DRM software, which means that you won’t be free to access them willy-nilly on any old device.

To counteract this, you need to download a DRM-busting plug-in for Calibre. One frequently cited example is Apprentice Alf’s DeDRM tool. Download for or and unpack. Now open up Calibre, enter the Preferences menu, and click ‘Change Calibre behaviour’. Navigate to Advanced>Plug-ins and hit the ‘Load plug-in from file’ button, then select the DeDRM_calibre_plugin file you just downloaded and reboot Calibre. Now, whenever you import files into Calibre, it will strip them of any DRM. You can then use the ‘Convert books’ button to change the files to a format suitable for whatever ebook reader you want to use, now or in the future.

Sarah Tew/CNET Editors' note: This story was first published in July 2010, and has been extensively updated, most recently on December 17, 2012. Shopping for an e-book reader or a small tablet?

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