I bought two of these bookcases because I'm a professor setting up a home office in my new apartment and...I happen to have a lot of books. Each bookcase came well packaged, which is important given one individual bookcase is quite heavy (well for me at least).  The instructions were very easy to follow.  I was able to put the bookcase together within an hour and a half.  It was certainly time well spent.  They are beautiful additions to my study.