If we're talking about owl books, I recently read and loved Owls of the Eastern Ice by a PhD wilderness researcher who spends years in Siberia in Eastern Russia tracking and recording rare fish owls, the world's largest species of owl. It was beautiful, hauntingly written and oddly funny in places. Just a totally unique, interesting read. I highly recommend! https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51542211
If you turn off Javascript for nytimes.com, you can read the whole article.
Using Reader Mode (at least on Firefox) and reloading will also bypass the paywall and you also get the added benefit of an easier to read article.
actually, since there is a short delay between article loading and the nag screen, you can even click "reader mode" just after (re-)loading the page and get it to work
not as elegant as your solution, sure, but it works in a pinch (also probably easier to do on mobile)
All the time on mobile I'm reloading and trying to hit reader at the right time.
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds, by Jennifer Ackerman.