Does anyone besides me use a thesaurus any more?

In book form? or even online?

I don’t know about anyone else, but the discovery of Roget’s Thesaurus on my mother’s bookshelf as a youngster was exciting. I loved to just read the lists and see how they congregated around a concept and illuminated its aspects without ever being truly interchangeable.

Now I use it a lot when words I know start to slip away. I used to use it to reach out into broader expanses. Now I use it to reach inward and refresh memory. And I still like the hard-cover book, with its brilliant organization, better than the Thesaurus.com version, whose main virtue is ease of access.