Phone books are usually divided into at least two sections. The white pages were residential listings, the yellow pages were for businesses, broken into categories and listed by alphabetical order.

Posted: Feb 25, 2024 / 08:00 AM CST Updated: Feb 20, 2024 / 12:55 PM CST Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo.

Did a reader just ask how to look up a family member’s phone number who is not in her local phone book? Go online! Don’t use lack of technical competence as an excuse. This is 2018!

But now, when a new phone book lands on a homeowner’s doorstep, the tome most often gets tossed in the recycling bin. They might be used to press flowers, or as a booster seat or a door stop, but ...

From Encyclopedias to Telephone Books, How Alphabetization Took Over the Modern World 8 minute read A woman referring to a phone book before placing a call, United States, 1943.

The phone books being distributed by LocalEdge are noticeably smaller this year. We reached out to the company to ask how much longer they plan on making them and if there are more changes in store.

Once you’ve finished “Telephone,” the latest book by Percival Everett, you may be talking about it with another reader and finding that you disagree on what happened. That is intentional.

The phone, the directory, and my father had all left Newburyport long ago. But for whatever reason, he had held on to the directory for decades, which made me realize I too needed to treat its ...

The CRTC has decided that SaskTel no longer has to print and deliver its traditional phone directory every year, but the ...