Do You Still Use A Phone Book?

I think they are still required to print them. We have a stack that shows up every year in my condo lobby.

I haven't even seen one in years.

Mean either.

I have one from the last time they were dropped off in my lobby. Probs from years ago. Have never used it.

I had myself removed from the phone book delivery lists years ago

When I'm sitting on my recliner and want to fill out a paper form (and I'm too lazy to get up and go to the kitchen table), I use the phone book as a desk.

But that's it.

I still get one but can't see the print anymore even with reading glasses.

Back in the 90s the library I worked at had a big wall of out of town phone books that people would come in to use. We had every phone book issued for California and major city ones for the rest of the country. No need for anything like that now but it was interesting to see how big the books were for different areas.

[quote]I still get one but can't see the print anymore even with reading glasses.

double them up.

I'm with R7. It's how I justified buying an iPad.

I have some ancient ones.

I have a 1929 London Phone Directory.

and a 1967 Manhattan,

and various others.

They're valuable because very few people kept them.

Winston Churchill is listed in the old London phone books.

My 93 year old mother asked the waiter last night if they had a phone book for her 2yr old great grandson to sit on at the table. We all giggled. The young Chinese waiter looked completely puzzled

I was thinking of this just today.

A friend of mine died recently.

I had tried in recent years to find him and thought, if we still had a phone book I could have looked him up and called his number.

I sometimes use one to press down documents on my scanner. That's about it.