It Collapses Under My Withering Gaze

Yeah, this kind of shelf would not last long at Nogglestead:

What is that, attached to a couple of 1x2s with four screws? If I wanted to keep my books stacked on the floor, I would put them there in the first place, not buy something off of the Internet, assemble it, and wait for gravity to work quickly.

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