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In my opinion it’s not a particularly earthshaking book, and I think most of the content will be familiar to the typical reader of “Everything is Miscellaneous”. There were however a couple of examples new to me, including Paul Otlet and the origins of the Universal Decimal Classification (not mentioned in EIM as far as I can tell). (However I’ll take points away from Wright for referencing an Appendix E on the UDC that doesn’t actually appear in the book.)

I’m not sure exactly what the “surprising conclusion” is that was referenced in the book’s blurb; among Wright’s points (at least the ones I remember) are

1. Ways of organizing information aren’t just intellectual constructs; they are built on and intertwined with deep biological and social factors.

2. Humans naturally think in terms of hierarchies, and hierarchies which are organized in particular ways (e.g., as in the taxonomies of “folk biology”).

3. There is a continuing tension between hierarchical and networked ways of looking at the world, and between written and oral modes of communication (with present-day Internet usage having many aspects of orality).

4. Shifts between different ways of communicating / organizing information can be very wrenching for the societies involved, e.g., printing in Europe as a catalyst for religious wars and other societal conflict. (John Robb’s net-enabled “open source warfare” could be cited as a contemporary example of this.)

I think “Glut” can be usefully read in combination with EIM; a book combining the strengths of both would have been killer.