I find it kind of depressing to think that every address in the phone book has its own white and yellow pages (sometimes multiple copies of each). Not only that, but you get a new set every year. How much does it cost to manufacture these deadweights? I'm sure there are some people who really put their phone books to use but I suspect the vast majority use theirs only sparingly. I'm at the point where I use the internet to look up everything so my old phone books get tossed in the trash at the end of the year without ever having been used. It just seems like such a huge waste. I think there would be no harm in the phone company limiting phone books to people who actually request them and those that don't want them should get a credit. It seems like common sense to me.