These illegal materials are readily available. You can search for them on your own time. It would not be ethical to display a collection of such materials on this forum.
If you wrote a book, wouldn’t you want to get paid for your hard work in carefully writing something with 300+ pages? I know I would.
I understand how they can be expensive; I’m on a budget, too. I’ll tell you what I’ve been doing to save money. I have bought second-hand Teach Yourself books from Amazon and Ebay. Although these books are a few editions older, they are in fine condition and have all of the same material – legally! Then, you can find the audio files for most of the books from Teach Yourself’s website – legally! http://library.teachyourself.com
You can also buy second-hand Colloquial courses, too. However, there is a greater difference between the editions. Besides two or three missing dialogs, the older versions of Polish and Serbian/Croatian have worked fine for me. You can download the audio for the newest edition from Colloquial’s website: http://www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/colloquial/language. However, be careful about the editions for older colloquial books as the authors often change, meaning that the content has changed.
Unfortunately, I have not found any used Assimil courses. I recently just got a new Assimil Hebrew course because I did not find any used ones.
I hope that you can see how to obtain these books legally AND on a budget. I just bought a Dutch book on Ebay for $3.48 total, using the online audio. Completely legal!
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