The word 'phonebook' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a printed or electronic directory containing the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of individuals or businesses in a particular area. Here's an example of using 'phonebook' in a sentence: "I need to update my contact information in the phonebook before I move to a new neighborhood."
"I knew things were bad when I tried to read my neuroscience textbook and I may as well have been starring at the phonebook," says Leston, who is about to enter her second year of experimental psychology.
Once, with a group of these friends, she looked up the famously reclusive Djuna Barnes in the phonebook.
Lizza describes a recent dinner at Bern's Steak House, in Tampa, Florida: The wine list is like a phonebook, and the steak menu is like a chart.
"There it was, inconceivably, K. Goedel, listed just like any other name in the bright orange Princeton community phonebook," writes Goldstein, who came to Princeton University as a graduate student of philosophy in the early nineteen-seventies.
Our man went through the nearest village, where they had a new phonebook, he looked himself up and there he was.
"It was like opening up the local phonebook and finding B. Spinoza or I. Newton".
"Moneyball" was four years down the line, and the field of sabermetrics was mostly relegated to the annual "Baseball Prospectus," a phonebook-like comprehensive statistical analysis of every player in the league (phonebooks were still around), and to Bill James's annual missives from Kansas City.
No Colts capsule would be complete without a reading from their phonebook-thick injury report.
It even helped produce a phonebook-size guide to environmentally sound practices in park design and management.
The remains of the phonebook-sized file with "shit EastEnders plans to piss the nation off" gouged on to the cover is being swept up along with the debris of destitute storylines and the stragglers who don't have a plot to piss in.
To return to the examples given a moment ago, no fully rational agent is curious about the measurements of every grain of sand on a given beach, or the name of every person in a random phonebook i.e., no rational person wants to know these truths independently of having some prudential reason for knowing them.
