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Ages ago I heard that the IKEA catalog was the second most printed book in the world, after the Bible. Considering it was reprinted every year, often ignored or thrown away, and completely superceded by websites, it's probably about time it was discontinued.

Yes, I also have childhood memories of reading through that thing, but these days if I want something from IKEA, their website is the first and only stop. Let's save these trees.

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Reminds me of printed phone books. Every unit in my 35 unit building would get a new one every year. They'd sit in a pile (how many phone books do you need). For a couple years they'd stack this years phone book on last years phone book.

Now not needed.

Reminds me of when I was in elementary school and we would have "phone book" drives. The class that collected the most phone books to be recycled would get some kind of prize. I remember walking around my neighborhood with a wagon collecting phone books. Good times.

Not sure you can call it a reprint if the content inside is completely different. If that was the case then a popular weekly magazine would anyways have way more total prints.

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