In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Edit - interestingly, I've just seen an almost certainly correct statement that in 2008 54% of residential numbers were ex-directory !!!!??

often wondered why the phone book was getting smaller when the population was getting bigger

It's all those unsolicited marketing calls we get!

Plus they are printing it on thinner paper in such a small unreadable font!

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Plus they are printing it on thinner paper in such a small unreadable font!

It's now sponsored by Specsavers

Where do I find their number?

I think that there's is genuinely more and more people who just don't want to be in it these days.

More and more people are getting more and more conscious about their data security. I know I wouldn't want to be in the phone book. But then I don't use a landline phone!

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Where do I find their number?

The print is a bit bigger here