Which non fiction book changed you forever hackernews?
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The focus was mostly on fiction and non-fiction, however, I also read a bit of poetry, biography, business and self-help ... Every book I've read last year has changed me a little bit as a person ... Every book you read becomes a part of you forever. ... in Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Hacker News and more.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
I lead a team to translate the whole book to Vietnamese fifteen years ago as a freshman highschool student, and released it for free online. We beat the printed book publisher by months. I should have gotten into tons of troubles, but everyone was kind enough to not beat me down. I didn't get into any legal troubles partly because people saw the values in doing it, partly because they didn't know what to do with it, partly because we were anonymous later on. The website received so much traffic I couldn't believe. Later on, I wrote an ajax-based site: after loading a very simple skeleton, it would only load plain text on demand afterwards, yet it would quickly saturate any free hosting bandwidth I could get. To put it into perspective, I had several HN front page stories nowadays and I got about 50k unique visitors worldwide a day at best. I got 5k a day just from Vietnam back then.