PHONE BOOKS... fading out???

As you can see I have 5 phone books.. and they are

getting to be worthless.

Two of these, well, actually 3 are not for my area.. directly

that is.. Coeur d' Alene  is really what they are for.

None of these I asked for.. they are either thrown in

my ditch/driveway in the attempt to get them to me..

or come in the mail. I think Frontier comes in the mail.

Trouble is.. one would think that Frontier would be the main

one.  But with so many people who are going Verizon wireless

because we got so fed up with Frontier, with their rising

rates and semi poor service, that our number is no longer

in the phone book.  So it is only Frontier numbers in there.

That makes it one of the phone books you need.

The black book is an old one.. I don't know if the Hagadone

company stopped printing or stop delivering up here. As they

too are based in CdA.   The black book use to be large. about

a 12 x 14 inches in sizes... They had CdA and Bonner county

(our county) businesses in there..  But like I said.. I haven't

gotten one since 2012.

Then there is the one called LOCAL PAGES... which I don't

like because the print is so small it looks like a contract. And

they only have the business who subscribe to their book.

Then there is the Coeur d' Alene (CdA) two... one for everyone and

one is the yellow pages.  Being there are a lot of us who

do business in CdA... we get those too..  That is where 90%

of the big box stores are.

Yesterday, I was looking up my doctor's office number, and

I could not find it. It wasn't in the CdA ones, of course. And

not the black one either.. so left Frontier and Local Pages.

Well, they must not subscribe to the Local Pages and guess

they don't have Frontier either.  Finally found one of their old

business cards in my wallet (in case i get in an accident) so

I could call.

Now I figured a lot of people use their smart phone.. but I don't

even have a dumb cell phone.. so I was lost in the fading of

the phone books situation.