OK - Thanks: what have we so far?
Applying what Fluribus quoted, according to his first sentence all second-hand bookshops, Amazon, ebay books ARE illegal. His second sentence CANNOT be used to make the illegal legal - can it??
I'm a scientist not a lawyer and getting very confused...... and if an author's works are said to be 'still in copyright' how does that work when some of the items are over 'death+70' and some not. If fluribus' statement is interpreted in the way he suggests, then an author CANNOT have a blanket copyright: if it's the item itself covered then the law ONLY applies to the thing you have in your hand, not even a second copy of the same thing in your other hand...... ? ? ?
And pdurrant seems to say the same thing here (I am UK BTW):
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You're also entirely wrong about there being any difference in terms of copyright between buying a book new and buying a book second hand. Copyright isn't a contract between buyer and seller.
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According to my understanding of that bit, if there's no difference, then the copyright law (printed inside each book) prevents you selling it on, new or second-hand. Or is that fluribus' whole point of being only the
item itself that is covered?
As a humble scientist, if I'm wrong on that then I'm grateful to those of you who know so much better and accept what you say unconditionally.
..........which means that I'll not tell you which books I 'did', who I am, where I got them from or anything else 
- but I'll leave it to you to guess whether they're leaving my Calibre library . . . . . . 