I bought three of these desks for my kids.  The desks are nice looking and I like the bins that act as drawers.  However, the side shelves are proving to be rather worthless as there is no backing, so most of the time, whatever the kids put on the shelves, the stuff ends up falling through the other end.  The only way it seems to avoid this would be to use bookends and balance the books or to put enough books in the shelves that they are packed end to end.