Which Article to Use

In following the directions for this assignment I found there is a pesky habit that still lives in me.
  As a young student I would use the encyclopedias in our house for research. I did say our house mind you. The man who sold those books to Dad was certain they would make us all intelligent masterful children to be proud of. Mom did not agree. Dad spent all of that money and paid extra for the yearly update volume to counter Mom's argument they would be out of date too soon.
  When I finally could read, I used to love reading those books. They had everything in them. My problem was that I could not stop at my subject. I would look up an entry and read it. But I never could stop. I would see the title of the next entry and read that. Then the next. I had such a hard time getting the paper done. Now in my defense I do know a lot of information about a variety of issues.
  However, I didn't know I still did that. There I was doing this assignment and I found myself not just looking at one article but many. And I had a hard time stopping, then discovered I didn't want to write about anything I had read.
 I found the deep and open web to be important to research. I think if the subject gets more technical of intricate searching the deep web would be better. Also if you were going to write something weighty. We tend to use the open internet everyday for things like phone numbers and maps.