My husband tried to put this together for hours. He is handy and puts furniture together for me all the time. He said the quality is not good. He’s trying to put the pieces in and it’s breaking apart. He tried to put the backing on and you have to slide it together very difficultly. He said if you have hours to spend on it it would be an okay bookshelf but the quality just isn’t very good and he doesn’t believe it would hold up.