The artist writes in an Afterward, "The title looks back on my recent experience of creating an installation at and for the Freud Museum and at the same time, it locates something else which is entirely distinct conceptually. What I think is positioned here is an extended and episodic view of my personal sense of inhabiting an historically-specific museum of culture with permeable boundaries...Probably artists function by simultaneously enacting the reciprocal roles of curator and subject, therapist and client; I've worked by collecting objects, orchestrating relationships, and inventing fluid taxonomies, while not excluding myself from them." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was a result of an initial installation in the Freud Museum, London, 1994 called "The Reading Room." Hiller states that "it locates something else which is entirely distinct conceptually." The artist created complex boxes with found objects and texts "orchestrating relationships, and inventing fluid taxonomies, while not excluding [herself] from them...Sequences, patterns, repetitions and gaps structure this book." This is a second edition of this book which coincides with the exhibition of the work at the Tate Modern. The Sackner Archive also contains the 1995 first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The booklets of "It Is Almost That" edition are collected in one latched, wooden box, organized alphabetically by artist surname.

This book was published on the occasion of Hiller's exhibition at Gimpel-Fils gallery in London in March-April 1983. The text of this book was produced by the technique of "automatic writing" in May 1972 during the artist's stay in France. The artist states that "my hands made the marks that form the inscriptions, but not in my characteristic handwriting (i.e., personal style of mark-making) or voice (i.e., usual tone or mode of utterance)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.