I only noticed this when I went to post this on eBay. These books are both the same volume, so they both point the same direction. If you look at my original picture, you can spend it around so that you see the other side of the book, which looks cool with its marbled pages. I just wanted to make sure that you knew the deal. You also could use just one to hold up a few books and then use another in another spot if you chose to do that.