Or you can get your parents to drive you to the library. Fingers crossed, the answers you need are somewhere in the pages of a book that’s somewhere on their bookshelves.


It’s hard to believe, but that was life without Google. Getting information was difficult and took a lot of work.


Just like you mine rock for new materials, like diamonds, you can mine a large database for the sole purpose of finding new information. Even better? Find information that’s never been discovered. That’s the diamond of data mining.


80 percent of published books are out of print.