@billcanada:

"It weighs just 4 pounds"

HisBoyElroy1971

@Monty: dont sweat, i am a col student, i would love a couple of those. dont think i would be burning them though!

mister_s

It is a GREAT design for people who would like to trap a bear or a baby. The screws would be loosen fairly quick and it will be falling apart as soon as you put books on the shelves. Not to mention it looks very heavy and bulky.

billcanada

That is actually a really nice design, and since it is made of cardboard, if you spend your last ten bucks on beer, you can always warm your dorm room by lighting it on fire. My eldest leaves for college at the end of summer and something like this might be useful for him. It might also make me the ass of all of his new friends jokes when he tells them 'look what my step dad gave me - what a loser!'

Monty

When I was a gypsy and moved a lot, I had a bunch of those plastic "milk crates" (still with the dairy name stamped on the side, in a rainbow of mismatched colors) that I stacked to make a really cheesy wall unit/bookshelf. When I moved, I used them to pack my meager possessions in to transport to my newest abode and since they were so "modular" I could configure them to any new space (or lack of space). Not exactly biodegradable, but certainly reuseable and when I finally put down roots, I sold them to a kid just off to the dorms for the first time to start the whole process over again. (Kudos to Elsie the Cow and her image which was part of my decor for a while.)

Curves

@Munch:

P3nnst8r

@Munch: I'm not gonna lie, i just lol'ed a little bit.

P3nnst8r

Genius! I just wonder how much weight it can support... being that college students have been known to overload things..

Munch

Does Yanko actually design anything that makes it's way to production?

bms

@Curves: I was just going to talk about my milk crate furniture. I stopped by the Land O' Lakes place before I went to college and asked them if I could buy about 20 crates. They said that because so many people just steal them, they liked my honesty and sold me 20 for ten bucks.

So those, mixed with particle board and cinder blocks, made up a majority of my computer desk, television stand, end tables, and book shelves. When I make it big, I am going to create a "dorm room" in my house, just so I can sit in it and reminisce.

zenpoet

Milk crates FTW. Although the ones I took for college had spilled milk all over them (lucky me) and no matter how many times I hosed 'em off, they still smelled sour. It took a bottle of windex and an entire roll of paper towels to get the stink off. Decades later, I still have them in the garage holding odds n ends.

Sora57

Designs like these are really utilitarian, not just for dorm life, but also for small spaces [read: all NYC apartments]. It's amazing how difficult it is to find good looking, light weight furniture that can be moved easily and not fall apart within a year of purchasing. Considering most renters in NYC have to move once a year, as rent skyrockets at the end of a lease, having furniture like this would make things a lot easier.

TOWken22

What a terrible idea. Drunk co-eds + paper furniture = beer-soaked pulp. I guess wire cubes and milk crates are too bourgeoisie.

As for the "greenness" of this item, recycling paper creates more pollution (mainly in the form of dioxin runoff) than making new paper products outright--the damn trees are even replanted.

No sale.

elgilicious

@HisBoyElroy1971: Very hard to believe. 4pounds of bookshelf holding 30lbs (approx.) of books. hmmm... oh well, we could all dream.

billcanada

@Sora57: Windex FTW, It is truly the best all purpose cleaner there is, at least that is what I tell myself while I use it to clean everything in my place.

TOWken22

I won't name names, but someone sounds a tad pessimistic about the paper recycling process. :-) I happen to agree btw. It really needs some process improvements. Curves has a good point, just pass them down the line. Heavy cardboard should last a few years with gentle treatment.

thedancingrogue

@P3nnst8r: That car's awesome! College ingenuity at its finest

Munch

I'd have to second the idea that milk crates are a much better solution since they not only work as a primitive bookcase, but can actually carry your books when you move. Unlike this thing, which collapse when you move leaving you with no where to put your books other than in more cardboard boxes.

wjousts

I'd get it. I always need more bookshelfy space. And its cute!

Karinabob

I'm still lugging around milk crates from when I lived in the barracks as a soldier in the early 90s. Yup, I store books in there.

Barion