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I had to laugh at your "heading!" That alone was worth my vote! Anyway, are you sure that the smaller book does not represent our more immediate area, while the larger one represents your entire county? I think that is the way ours is set up.
I understand your feelings however... I feel that way about all of the "JUNK MAIL" that the post office thinks they have a right to "JAM" my mailbox full of every single day. I throw it right in the trash can anyway. It would take an "HOUR" out of every day just to read it all! AND, think of all the trees that they are cutting down!
I understand your feelings however... I feel that way about all of the "JUNK MAIL" that the post office thinks they have a right to "JAM" my mailbox full of every single day. I throw it right in the trash can anyway. It would take an "HOUR" out of every day just to read it all! AND, think of all the trees that they are cutting down!
Anyway, are you sure that the smaller book does not represent our more immediate area, while the larger one represents your entire county?
I had a similar suspicion, but no. They both cover the same area. I hear you about the junk mail, too... my most hated of which are the store circulars that appear jammed in my mail box nearly every day.
I had a similar suspicion, but no. They both cover the same area. I hear you about the junk mail, too... my most hated of which are the store circulars that appear jammed in my mail box nearly every day.
I will have to double check my smaller yellow pages again. Yes, I hate the same store circulars! They come out every week! But more than anything, I really hate the credit card applications, that you can't just throw away, but must shread, because they have your name printed on them, and someone could activate them! (A form of identity theft!) I must find those numbers that one can call to stop the junk mail! There are "several" numbers! The banks are also paid to let these phenominal pests know what your interests are, by seeing and noting who you use your checks and credit cards to pay any bills to! Lets move to a "Desert Island!" 
If I remember correctly, the companion is a 1/4 scale edition of the YP, containing everything the full size version does... it does have a use - sales/delivery people can carry it around and even put it in a glove box and not have the bulk & weight of the full size version. The last place I worked, the boss carried a companion in his minivan... which seems fitting. 
I tested this theory, too. I turned at random to an entry in the big book (landscape architects, it turns out), then the same in the "companion." The "companion" did not have all the listings found in the big book. Most, yes, but not all. Nor is it anywhere close to a 1/4 scale. It's certainly not small enough to fit in the glove box of the average vehicle.
Here, I think I've seen it advertised as the version you can take with you, for when you're "on the go."
Like I'm going to drag around a phone book with me. Just in case I want to find some random take-out place while I'm picking a kid up from school? Shells, I'll plan ahead.
Here, though, we can recycle these massive beasts. So they often take the short hop from bag to bin.
Like I'm going to drag around a phone book with me. Just in case I want to find some random take-out place while I'm picking a kid up from school? Shells, I'll plan ahead.
Here, though, we can recycle these massive beasts. So they often take the short hop from bag to bin.
I got a CD-ROM version with one of mine. Seriously, there are so many of them so that more companies can get a piece of the advertising pie. Most of them end up being wastes of money that exploit under-branded mom-and-pops, but that's the reason. The only saving grace is that every book printed kills a damn tree...
Recently, we all received the latest of the of increasingly useless "phone books" that the phone company insists on publishing, despite the fact that many, many people never look stuff up in them, choosing to use the internet, instead.
Many, many people never read books at all, choosing to screw around on the internet instead. Does that mean it's time to stop publishing books?
This, as with many things in our society, makes me just want to scream.
Does this rank above or below Paris' breakup with Nichole as BFFs?
Many, many people never read books at all, choosing to screw around on the internet instead. Does that mean it's time to stop publishing books?
My point - though I obviously didn't spell it out - is that they print the books and give them to you whether or not you want them. It's wasteful. And residential isn't even where most of the waste occurs, but in businesses. My office alone... we have probably 100 copies of the books sitting there, because they give us one copy for each phone number we have or something stupid like that. But virtually no one has a phone book at their desk because we don't need them. (And wouldn't need them, even if we didn't have 'net access.) It's ridiculous.
they print the books and give them to you whether or not you want them. It's wasteful.
They do it because phone books are really a bunch of ads packages as something useful. And, yeah, it's wasteful...but it's also what keeps people who actually have a use for them--and they do exist--from having to buy the things at $10 a pop or so.
If you don't have a use for them, throw 'em out, or recycle 'em, or something.
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