It's nice looking and good for knick-knacks, but it's a poor bookcase: the openings on the sides are very large and books will just fall through. So you need bookends on every shelf, and not just any bookends, but big heavy expensive ones because the bookcase is so wide. I mentioned. The response I got back from Sellwood was not sympathetic "It is described by the manufacturer as a bookcase" - which tells me "hey, we don't really know our products, we just ship them" I guess buying "locally" is ...