An Deyi runs a home school (or boot camp) that focuses on traditional Chinese learning. An’s method to help Internet junkies is to make them recite Chinese classics for a few hours every day, all while keeping a rigid healthy eating and exercising schedule. His method has apparently been so successful that it’s warranted a news report series, including stories of the people he’s helped.

When she was a high-school sophomore, Yan Huan started cutting school. She spent every weekend at an Internet cafe. When her father found out, he locked her up for a month.

Yan Huan managed to escape. When her father found her and took her back, he suffered a heart attack as she stood watching indifferently. This saddened him.

“She didn’t go to college, but went to a vocational school. She was hooked on the Internet. Glued to the computer till three or four o’clock in the morning, and then she’d oversleep,” said Yan’s mother.

In an attempt to bar his daughter from using the Internet, Yan’s father set a password for the family’s computer, but the daughter managed to find a way to bypass it.

That was before. This is after.

…About two months into the treatment, Yan’s addiction to the Internet has totally vanished and she has taken a healthy liking to reading Chinese classics.

Even her father, who was once so disappointed with her, believes that his rude, rebellious daughter has changed. Yan said she owes everything to An, whom she calls “Guoxue Super-Dad.”

So there you have it, it’s obviously An Deyi’s amazing classics studying house and not, say, leaving a miserable home life, that’s cured Yan’s addiction to the internet. Next time someone’s mum complains to you that her kid does nothing but WoW all day, just hand them a copy of The Analects. That’ll cure ‘em. [Danwei]

The Hathi Trust—named in the spirit of wisdom, memory and strength after the Hindu word for “elephant”—will be an amazing repository of data. Currently its bibliography, containing the physical equivalent of 1,703 tons of literature, is only partially searchable by University of Michigan and University of Chicago library sites, but “there is currently no single global interface to the body of content in HathiTrust repository.”

This highlights the real strains of safely storing the world’s intellectual property—while being able to serve it up for public consumption. The Hathi website laments that it’s still working on “a way that takes into account the large number of different sources of metadata and the different strategies each of the partners has for managing that information.” It’s the reason that library science can be as complex as rocket science. To put it another way, “Growing the world’s largest library won’t happen overnight.” [Hathi Trust via Wired]

*Here’s the whole list, in case you want to see if your uni is part of the elephantine operation:
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