The lighting looks nice, but I think it'll be a little unfortunate when the strip starts failing. Other than the strip that shelving could last decades, but the lights won't.
I've had mixed luck with LED strip, -- with some becoming glitchy after only a few months of operation.
I've had some start to twitch and it's usually a bad connector. When I first installed my LED lights the connectors were actually a destructive type. They would pierce the strip to make the connection. The resulted in shaky connections that would fail easily. I then upgraded to non-destructive connectors and they work much easier.
In fact, I bought fairly expensive ones but I think what I got were fakes. (Thanks amazon). I subsequently found a vendor that I get reliable parts from -- but the point remains that regardless of how good those strips are, the shelves will outlive them.
Right, but if e.g. it were fixtures with socketed bulbs they could be replaced.
I built large bookshelves last year (though not as cool as the posts) and didn't integrate lighting for this reason-- and it's really good that I didn't because it turned out the strip I was using at the time didn't last long.
I've had mixed luck with LED strip, -- with some becoming glitchy after only a few months of operation.