Another reviewer wrote: "I am literally afraid to put anything on it for fear of breaking it"... Well, from my experience that fear is well-founded. Me, I figured a bookcase should be able to handle books. So I put books in it. In a pretty short period of time, one of the lower shelves (2nd from bottom) split right in half at the seam where the shelf meets the load-bearing vertical divider. Luckily there was a wall there for it to fall against, and now the case is just leaning against the wall. So if you want some shelves to put some light chachkas on, I guess this might fit the bill. But don't buy it for books, because it won't hold! It should be called a "chachka-case"; not a bookcase...