Is it just me or do the bookshelves in this game simply not work? Like, at all? I have been messing around with the bookshelves in Breezehome and they keep doing crazy things like vanishing my books into nonexistence. One shelf I filled up but then took one book off of it, and now I can't activate it anymore to put more books on it. This seems to be permanent, it's been 8 hours since I did it and it still doesn't work. The other shelf I tried putting 18 books on it all at once and the books just dissapeared forever AND I can't activate it anymore. What the heck?

Just like alot of other things in this game it's broken. Don't worry someone will justify it and say ur the problem for not having 10 video cards, 500 gb of ram, and not suspending ur pc in outerspace for proper cooling.

Same happened to me, I've lost almost all my books to the buggy bookshelves in the Windhelm house.

I think this is a problem that is addressed in the newest patch: http://www.bethblog.com/2011/12/07/skyrim-update-1-3-now-on-steam/
Are you playing with the newest patch?

Oh sweet, I didn't see that there was a new patch out. Thanks, time to go update.