Do you still use the Phone Book

[New.Dad]

Just got a new set of ATT yellow/white/mini-yellow/pages today (I didn't request it!) and I am so sad to see another tree was cut down somewhere in the tropical forest to print these books I haven't requested nor I will ever use. All the stuff is online these days; why do they even print phone books and yellow pages anymore?

[Seacrest]

Maybe I'm wrong, but the trees they fell in the tropical forests generally aren't used to make our paper.

A minor point, but, yes I agree that there isn't much use for big thick phone books, unless, of course, you're a new dad and your kid needs a makeshift booster seat. ;-)

[mikebw]

This is all I use them for-


I can actually rip the thinner ones, but my hands aren't really big enough to get a good grip on the big big books.

[OWC Jamie]

I still use mine.
Usually to show somebody just how friggin' easy it is to find it instead of asking me.

Tropical forest wood is mostly too valuable to use for paper, although byproduct sawdust and pulp can be used for lots of things.

Phone book is mostly recycled paper.
(recycled paper isn't necessarily easy on the environment, either)

Local phone company book I use .
That "Yellow Book" phone book and all the other phone book wannabees are worthless POS. I'd like to shove their book up the $#% of the idiots who call from the "YellowBook". Usually an accent so heavy you can't understand a word they're saying.

[OWC Jamie]

Mine go back on the forest floor:

[BigGuynRusty]

Yellow pages, all the time.
Best way to find services, searching for hours at yellowpages.com, yahoo, and everyplace else for auto window tinting, found three places, all of them crap, way too much money, way too far away.
Two minutes with the yellow pages, found a place four blocks away, really low cost, does beautiful work.

BGnR
Trees are a renewable resource.

[microchip13]

Nope. I use the widget in the dashboard.

[trisho.]

Not everyone has access to the internet yet. And like BGnR said, the online Yellow Pages is only people who paid to get there is really useless sometimes.

[davester]

It shouldn't be this way, but I find that flipping throught the yellow pages is a much faster way to get a comprehensive list of what I'm looking for than using online yellow pages.

[blooz]

Sure. For one thing i can't use the telephone and the computer at the same time anyway.
And if the power is out, I usually can still use the phone.

You guys who only use and keep info online are going to have a rude shock someday.