How long since you used a phone book?

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Either white or yellow pages?

Bu “using” I don’t mean as a doorstop – I mean to look something up.

I can’t remember; as soon as they’re delivered they go in the recycle bin. What a waste of paper.

Long ago I got tired or not being able to read the print, which I swear got smaller and smaller (to make more printing space). I know there are people who use phone books because they don’t use computers and calling 411 information usually costs a fee. And so many people have non-published numbers now.
 

I use it on occasion to look up a business number, IF I can't get it on the internet. I don't toss them until a new one comes along.
Why? Don't you have reading glasses ?
 
We used the yellow pages this past week to have our windshield replaced on our car. We still look up stuff in the yellow pages, never use the white anymore though. We get way too many phone books delivered here, all sizes for all areas. I just use the large ones, the rest are a waste. We still get the newspaper too, although a lot of people read theirs online.
 

Falcon said:
I use it on occasion to look up a business number, IF I can't get it on the internet. I don't toss them until a new one comes along.
Why? Don't you have reading glasses ?
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Well, reading glasses don't help me. If only it were that simple.
(I’ve talked in other threads about an eye disease and surgeries.) But I can’t be the only one who has had trouble with small print in phone books.

I do wait until new one comes before tossing old one. But I usually just keep the smaller one that’s published for our area (not the real big yellow pages).
 
I can't remember when, but Verizon quit leaving stacks of phonebooks in the local post office(rural area); the Lyons Club used to provide a phone book for the community, but it's been years since I've seen one.
 
We still get a phonebook delivered by our gate annually. Actually two, one is for the entire county, the other Bullhead City/Laughlin area. They are small-sized, a bit smaller than a comic book, total about an inch thick. Pretty sparse population density, actually. Mohave County is 7th. largest county in the U.S. imp
 
The Yellow Pages is still the first place I go to look up something, but a lot of companies don't bother to advertise there anymore. So then I go to the internet. Old habits die hard, I guess. I used to write a few important numbers in the phone book, but that habit died long ago. Too many phone books. No time to transfer.
 
It's Years since I used either the white pages or the yellow pages. They've stopped delivering white pages to us now and we get a much thinner version of the yellow pages every year which goes straight into the recycle bin...waste of good trees..
 
Something else I do: Although I have phone #s in my phone contact list, I took the time to sit down and write them all on a piece of paper and keep it in a file. Just in case my phone is lost/stolen…..many are unlisted numbers and would be a big hassle to go thru many channels to try to reach some people.
 
It's funny, very few small businesses here have webpages.:shrug: Mostly only the larger establishments and chains have them. There are many webpages dedicated to locating businesses, but many have outdated information, even phone numbers are wrong. I tend to deal with small operators, individuals. They can't afford YP and don't know how to do a webpage. We found the man who took down our trees from the "Find a Service" ad section of the paper. Cheaper than the classifieds.
 
Even with my reading glasses, the print-size they're using today is way too small for me.
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Print size on back label of over the counter meds is ridiculous.......my 21 yr old nephew with 20/20 vision could barely read it. This is dangerous. :mad:

Phone books become outdated so fast. Only way to get correct address is to call - IF you can find a number.
 
I began to hate the yellow pages after learning how much an ad in one costs. My neighbor went into the overhead door servicing business, and looked into a yellow page ad; this was before P.C.s were common like today. A 1/4 page ad was $490 per MONTH! The Phoenix yellow pages had 300 pages, that's 600 sides, times 4- 1/4 pagers per side, times $490 times 12 months (the shortest contract offered), do the arithmetic, enormous amount of revenue! imp
 
I haven't used one in years. The phone company (or whoever) delivers them every year and I immediately pitch 'em. They are impossible to read, are outdated by the time they are printed, and take up too much space; besides that, it's much faster to just search on the net for what I'm looking for.
 
We used the phone book this morning.

Someone put a deep scape on our car in a parking lot and my husband looked up
auto body shops in the Yellow pages.

We keep our phone book until the new one is delivered.
Never know when it might come in handy.
 
I stopped using phone books years ago. If I can't find it by googling, I call 1-800-FREE411 it's a free call, you just have to hear a quick ad first.
 
I used one yesterday morning, looking for a shoe repair guy to repair a belt for me.
 

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