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Unless things have changed a lot in the last couple years, Calibre doesn't do anything with stripping DRM and actually tries to stay away from it. It's possible that there are plug-ins to do it, but if the Calibre devs curate the plug-ins I wouldn't expect to find those either.

Calibre is an ebook library manager. It's clunky in some ways, but I'm not sure what better options exist.

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DeDRM Tools is a great software package which comes with a Calibre plugin that automatically removes the DRM of the ebooks you add (in addition to standalone DRM removing apps):

https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/dedrm-tools-6...

It's a great tool, but the problem with DRM to me is not the technical difficulty of removing it, it's the validation of a business model predicated on denying ownership of the books by the users.

It's like buying an iphone and then jailbreaking it: I'm all for it, but it does not change the reality that you have just financed apple practices to the tune of hundreds of dollars. For ebooks the sums are much smaller, and clearly compromising if there is no alternative more acceptable, but the problem remains.

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