Ah the component catalogue, a 2000+ page device for raising computer monitors to eye height. Same with the yellow pages, it amazes me why they continue to print on the centre pages when the only remaining corporate value is a company logo on the spine displayed beneath every monitor.
I witnesses a recent office relocation in Sydney's CBD where the good folks in the office environment committee (yes every floor of CBD financiers needs an environment committee) outlawed phone books and the like from their new digs. The stationary cabinet was raided for weeks where two or three full reams of fresh copy paper was seconded until ever monitor in the office was at a comfortable level.