how do you use your phone book?

I can't remember the last time I used a phone book for what it was actually intended. With the recent debut of the Internet, the information contained in phone books suddenly became much more accessible, user friendly and comprehensive. Need proof? Stalkers and con artists don't use phone books.


This doesn't mean that phone books are completely useless though. They can be useful, just not really for finding phone numbers and stuff. Here are a few ways in which the phone book can prove to be kind of useful:


Kindling for a fire
Booster Seat/foot rest
Target for shooting
Door stop
Killing bugs
Pressing Flowers
Paper mache
Temporary “business advertisement tattoos”
Toilet paper backup 


These all seem to be pretty decent uses, but I don't think that any of them justify the actual creation of these books. So there must be something deeper that I'm not able to see on the surface. My best guess is that they are mass manufactured to prevent tree over-population. It's the governments way of helping move global warming along. Why else would they mass produce booster seats  to be delivered right at our doorstep?