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Sorry to complicate this for you, but Mobileread is opposed to piracy. We’ve all assumed that the books you want share are all out of copyright, but some copyrighted books are published without DRM as a convenience to their readers, so the mere lack of DRM does not indicate the right to share them. If any of these eBooks are still covered by copyright then copying them to your friend’s eReader is piracy, depending on where you live, and that’s where it gets complicated.

Publishers still publish books with a notice such as: Copyright 1926 and the name of the copyright holder. At least with eBooks the copyright notice ought to add something like this:

Copyright expires:
Australia
Canada
UK
US
Etc., etc., listing countries where the book is offered for sale.

Or even: "Copyright Expired", even if the work was copyrighted in the 18th Century (just to be sure).

Your post doesn’t list your country and my knowledge of copyright laws in my own country is limited to a general rule that if it was published before 1923 it’s probably out of copyright and if after 1922 it might be out of copyright. You see my knowledge of copyright is wholly inadequate as are the rules. So far the publishers are no help at clearing the problem up.