...which made me wonder how much paper has been saved by the demise of phone books. I tried searching for the answer but the best I found was from the bbc way back in 2011 "The new Yellow Pages - which is a mixture of paper either recycled or sourced from sustainably managed forests - will conserve about 5,000 tonnes of paper a year."
I'm sure we received a chain-smoking-supermodel-thin phone book a while ago. I'm not sure why, I thought they'd demised upon the internet. Phonebooks, not skinny supermarkets, I'm sure they're alive – if not well – on the internet. Honestly, it would take months to beat a confession out of someone with a phone book that thin. Any thinner and it would have passed for a tissue.
Still, it's the sort of thing my parents would use, they have the internet, but other than my dad's occasional forays in the land of mature ladies in sartorial distress, they mostly seem a bit vague as to the more comprehensive set of use cases. Mind you, my mum doesn't even call me ever because she's scared of the phone bill (this is partly my fault for running up a huge set of bills as a student with an American girlfriend). I've lost track of the number of times I've told them the calls are free. Of course, she may simply not want to talk to me. If you've read this far, I suppose you might agree.