Last month I received my copy of Verizon’s new local telephone book. I was immediately struck by how much thinner it was than in years past. Even more shocking was the discovery that it was actually a ...
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Navin R. Johnson would be so disappointed. “The new phone book’s here, the new phone book’s here! I’m somebody now.” That’s what Johnson, played by Steve Martin in “The Jerk,” shouted when he madly ...
No matter where you live, we all get them - phone books - and the latest ones are making their way around the Metro area. But do you really need phone books when so many of us have computers and cell ...
PITTSBURGH — Why do we still get phone books in 2019? Channel 11 News viewers sent us videos of their tweens and teens trying to navigate the lost art of the yellow pages. And yet, the books still ...
Remember the good old days, when somebody dropped a single phone directory at your front door once a year, or maybe an updated version of the same book every six months? The directory was simple ...
As a physical book apologist, it pains me to write this. I love books. I love the unwieldy weight, the slowly yellowing pages, the (ugh, sorry for the cliché) smell, and the fact that I can look at a ...
Phone books are a burden on landfills, said Michael Patton, executive director of the Metropolitan Environmental Trust. In 1989, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. took corporate good citizen ...
Five years ago, I decided to try and manage my anxiety by swapping my smartphone for a book. It was lockdown at the time, and ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- What's black and white and read all over? Not the white pages, which is why regulators have begun granting telecommunications companies the go-ahead to stop mass-printing ...
NEW YORK - When several phone book publishers came up for sale recently, something interesting happened: Investors paid huge sums for them. The phone book, possibly the least glamorous backwater of ...
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