Book review: How to Say What Stuff Looks Like

One of my all-time favorite reference books is Thomas Rieder’s How to Say What Stuff Looks Like. The book is a compendium of descriptive terminology, and is presented in a handy format that includes illustrations adjacent descriptive terms. I find myself using this book frequently when drafting patent applications — I have yet to find “stuff” that this book didn’t help in saying what it looks like.

And the title….could there be a better one for a compendium of descriptive terminology?

Buy the book here.