On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 19:50:37 -0600, "Keith"
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"mm" wrote in message
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The phone books have been getting smaller. With the yellow pages, I
figure most places are still in business but they have moved their
advertising elsewhere.

But with the white pages, I'm not so sure. The new book is 1/3
smaller than the book 1 or 2 years ago. If they've just made their
numbers unpublished, I want to keep the book so I will still have
their numbers. But if they've abandoned their wired phones for cell
phones, there is no point to keeping the book.

Why is the White Pages 1/3 shorter than it was? How much is
unpublished and how much is just gone?

Thank you.


You still get white pages? We haven't seen a new white pages in several
years.

I'm not sure when I got the previous one. Let me go look..... .....
..... .. It's dated March 2007 so it's 4 or 5 years old. My current
one says March 2011 - 2012, but the old one gives only one year. I
guess the start year so it's 4 years old.

And yes, the font of the new one is smaller. I shoudl have noticed
that.

And there are four colunms per page, instead of 5 like before. I
guess they figured out that with the smaller font, there would be many
fewer two line entries so a net savings.