What’s With The Small Phonebooks?

We used to always get a small-ish phone book from other companies, but I always used the big ol’ Dex phone book as it was more complete, had more local info, etc … . The small ones I’d either throw away or put in the trunk of my car in case I needed it.

Now I get my Qwest/Dex/Whatever phone book today, and now they’re bundling a small phone book with it. (I also noticed that they printed an advertisement directly on the bottom side of the book, on to the side of the pages — I’m sure that ad was cheap.) I wondered if this was some sort of supplemental phone book with more info, but no: It’s just another phone book for people to keep around that has less extraneous stuff in it and Bend is just the latest market to get one.

Comments

Val says:

You can always recycle the ones you don’t want!

Dan says:

We’ve been getting the phonebooks like that for years here. Nynex/Verizon always sends their Superpages with a small version adhered to the biggie. Great, two phone books I’ll never use.

cheryl says:

Love the small phone book. I could actually use a couple more to keep in the cars. I do wish they’d incl. the govt pages in them though.