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by yann63 2787 days ago
And I've not even finished to read the first sentence than an overlay slides from the top to make me subscribe to their newsletter or tell me something. I immediately left the site: the back button worked fine for me, but maybe the site had not completely loaded at the time.

I am still surprised by this behavior of websites. I guess they did the math and that these practices make them win more than then lose. The web in 2018 is in a poor shape :-(

Anyway, back at the topic: which book should, for you, be in the most influencial list? Mine would be "A self-sufficient organic kitchen garden" (automatic tranlation from French "Biopotager autosuffisant"): how to grow yourself enough vegetables to not have to buy any.