I gave this to my husband for Christmas this past year, less than 2 months ago.  He loved it!  He does a lot of paperwork from his chair and it was perfect.  It didn't take long, though, for the on off switch to break and now it's only functional if you want to get up and plug and unplug it.  Not impressed! It's now headed to the dump.  After the switch broke, at least the light worked for awhile. Then it dimmed enough to be useless.