We’ve long been interested in the phone book, both as a cultural object and as a signpost in the old-reading/digital-reading continuum. (Last year, Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn noted that “these directories prefigured their more modern replacements”; that they were, “in essence, the first social-media sites.”) They’re also a nuisance, a tolerated vestige of another era, or a useful tool, depending on your attitude and habits. So we’ve been following
