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Fri, Oct 8 2010

Don’t Toss Your Sad, Useless Phone Books – Build a House With Them Instead

photo via Inhabitat

Dear phone books: Sorry, but we don’t need you anymore, thanks to this new fad called the World Wide Web. Yet phone companies keep dropping you off — it’s like they think if they stop delivering you, the world will know that landlines are nearing obsolescence.

One innovator used 7,000 discarded phone books to build an actual house. The books are so dense that you can even screw wood into them, which allowed for the building’s impressive facade.

Do you think phone books are wasteful and should stop getting made, or do you still use one?

photo via Inhabitat

via Inhabitat

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  1. By Courtney

    A good rain and I think that house will biodegrade..
    I never use phone books anymore and I get annoyed when I see them on my doorstep.