Finally, she told Thabo to visit his college library in person . "Ask the librarian for 'offline digital reserves.' Many colleges have an internal server with PDFs of key textbooks that you can copy to a USB drive while sitting in the library. It's not public on Google, but it's perfectly legal."
Here is the path she showed him:
If you need direct links to the official eBook or past paper repositories, just ask. I can point you to the correct, safe websites.
She grabbed his phone and opened a browser. "First," she said, "forget random 'free PDF download' sites that ask you to click five times. Those are how you get a virus, not v-belts and verniers."