"Good thing there are millions of other websites with book suggestions which work just fine with ad-block turned on..."

That's how I interpret pages that don't work at all when I have adblock turned on.

Seriously, if a website is so crammed with tracking shit and advertising that it can't even display text when I have ad-block on, then good-riddance.

All of them with sources as credible as Bill Gates?

To be sure, Bill Gates is a solo authority when it comes to listing his favorite books.