This is incredibly sturdy: a lightweight, well-designed bedside tray table or typing table that stays put but still slides easily when you want to shift it around. Easy to put together, pleasingly simple to look at, brilliantly useful. This is not your basic put-together furniture -- it's extremely strong and reliable. Works well as a bedside table during the day or at night, but also easy to turn around in front of a chair for meals. Could even adjust its height upwards and then pull the unit backwards over the side of a bed for eating small amounts while in bed if desired. Caution: do wipe up any spills quickly if you can. A small amount of spilled orange juice, neglected overnight, will be with us forever in a freeform design on the top a la Jason Pollock, but the tray table is so useful that we don't even mind! If you have a similar experience, either park a fabric placemat on the tray top if you want to hide it, or just love the unit anyway for its convenience and sturdiness as we do!