diff --git a/_overviews/scala3-book/domain-modeling-tools.md b/_overviews/scala3-book/domain-modeling-tools.md
index b8fd76f2fc..2319cabf87 100644
--- a/_overviews/scala3-book/domain-modeling-tools.md
+++ b/_overviews/scala3-book/domain-modeling-tools.md
@@ -219,8 +219,7 @@ Here’s an example of a “string utilities” object that contains a set of me
 object StringUtils:
   def truncate(s: String, length: Int): String = s.take(length)
   def containsWhitespace(s: String): Boolean = s.matches(".*\\s.*")
-  def isNullOrEmpty(s: String): Boolean =
-    if s == null || s.trim.equals("") then true else false
+  def isNullOrEmpty(s: String): Boolean = s == null || s.trim.isEmpty
 ```
 
 We can use the object as follows:
diff --git a/_overviews/scala3-book/taste-objects.md b/_overviews/scala3-book/taste-objects.md
index ae522627f1..4fbb325eb2 100644
--- a/_overviews/scala3-book/taste-objects.md
+++ b/_overviews/scala3-book/taste-objects.md
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ For example, this `StringUtils` object contains a small collection of string-rel
 
 ```scala
 object StringUtils:
-  def isNullOrEmpty(s: String): Boolean =
-    if (s==null || s.trim.equals("")) true else false
+  def isNullOrEmpty(s: String): Boolean = s == null || s.trim.isEmpty
   def leftTrim(s: String): String = s.replaceAll("^\\s+", "")
   def rightTrim(s: String): String = s.replaceAll("\\s+$", "")
 ```
@@ -93,4 +92,3 @@ NOTE: I don’t know if this is worth keeping, but I’m leaving it here as a co
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