<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Thesaurus on Isak's Blog</title><link>https://blog.isakkvam.com/tags/thesaurus/</link><description>Recent content in Thesaurus on Isak's Blog</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.isakkvam.com/tags/thesaurus/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>My four desktop books</title><link>https://blog.isakkvam.com/post/my-four-desktop-books/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.isakkvam.com/post/my-four-desktop-books/</guid><description>&lt;p>I wrote in &lt;a href="https://blog.isakkvam.com/post/friday-favorites-12/">my last post&lt;/a> that I keep four reference books on my writing desk: a dictionary, a usage dictionary, a thesaurus, and a copy production book.&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>Sure, you can use Google to answer questions while you write. But opening the internet invites too much distraction for me. I already procrastinate way too much of my writing (don’t ask about my Screen Time stats!), so I’d rather open a book than the internet. Then when I do procrastinate, at least I’m reading about writing instead of scrolling an algorithm.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>