We bought two of these bookcases to line the wall behind our desk along with a hutch.  They look great!  The white color with wood shelves looks perfect and keeps the room light, which is what we were going for.  It would have been a pretty dark room with a heavy wood bookcase.  
The directions to put it together were clear, but be warned - it's a two person job because the pieces are long and heavy, and it's a lot of steps so it takes a while.  That's all fine with me, because I think in the end we got a sturdy nice piece of furniture.  The only real complaint we had with construction is that they included glue for the wood dowels that bring pieces together, but it was only about half the glue needed.  We ended using some tacky glue for the rest because it seemed about the same consistency and it was what we had.  If you really want to be sure maybe you could get some epoxy or something and be very careful not to glue your fingertips.