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My books have been multiplying again, and I was out of room on my bookshelves, so I started the search for additional storage solutions. Problem is that I have limited space for new bookshelves and wasn't sure how to handle this. Then I stumbled on this rotating bookcase. It holds all the books I had piled up waiting for homes, plus I was able to start cleaning up my other bookcases (double rows were causing shelves to bow). Once bookcase was completely full (around 90-100 books total), I was able to easily wheel it across the room to its new home. It takes up a small footprint, so it wasn't hard to find a corner to place it, and since it wheels easily, I can pull it out to find books without any problems. The description of it being a rotating bookcase is slightly misleading. I interpreted that to mean that the bookcase could stay in one place and rotate independently from the wheeled base. That is not the case - it rotates because of the wheels, which is not necessarily a smooth circle in one spot, so make sure you have some room to maneuver if you need to rotate to other sides.Putting it together: All the reviews said that this was simple to put together, and eventually I agreed, but I spent 20 minutes of extreme frustration first. The instructions are just one page of diagrams, no actual instructions. As is my routine, I pulled everything out of the box, grabbed the instruction sheet and compared all the parts against it to make sure I had everything I needed. I was pleased to see a screwdriver included - no need to go dig through the junk drawer! So I studied the diagrams until I was fairly confident I knew what was what and I grabbed the first two pieces and corresponding screws, along with that lovely screwdriver that was included. I got that first screw in about halfway, and then it just wouldn't go any further, no matter how hard I tried. Finally I grabbed a second screw and figured I would try that to see if the problem is just the predrilled hole or something else. Again, it started good but couldn't get past halfway point. As my hand began to ache from my efforts and my husband laughed at me, I finally grabbed my phone to check the original listing for pointers. Nothing obvious, until I got to one review that mentioned an Allen wrench. Sure enough, when I dug deeper in the bag of screws, I found that darned little piece of metal that made my life 1000 times better. When I went back to those original screws, they went in like a dream. I had the rest of the thing put together in less time than I had struggled with those first two screws. So it turns out the screwdriver is only needed for attaching the wheels. The Allen wrench is not identified anywhere on the list of included parts, and because it was so well hidden in the bag of screws, I never even considered that I wasn't using the correct tool. Screwdriver was front and center, seemed obvious that it was intended to be used. Maybe I'm just a little dense or was having a bad day - I've put together so many pieces of furniture over the years that I can't even count them all, and I've never had a problem like this. I probably should have known that these screws needed an Allen wrench not Phillips screwdriver (in my defense, this was at 9 p.m. and not good lighting), but it would be so easy for the manufacturer to just include that with the other parts on the instruction sheet and save a ton of time and swearing.

My books have been multiplying again, and I was out of room on my bookshelves, so I started the search for additional storage solutions. Problem is that I have limited space for new bookshelves and wasn't sure how to handle this. Then I stumbled on this rotating bookcase. It holds all the books I had piled up waiting for homes, plus I was able to start cleaning up my other bookcases (double rows were causing shelves to bow). Once bookcase was completely full (around 90-100 books total), I was able to easily wheel it across the room to its new home. It takes up a small footprint, so it wasn't hard to find a corner to place it, and since it wheels easily, I can pull it out to find books without any problems. The description of it being a rotating bookcase is slightly misleading. I interpreted that to mean that the bookcase could stay in one place and rotate independently from the wheeled base. That is not the case - it rotates because of the wheels, which is not necessarily a smooth circle in one spot, so make sure you have some room to maneuver if you need to rotate to other sides.Putting it together: All the reviews said that this was simple to put together, and eventually I agreed, but I spent 20 minutes of extreme frustration first. The instructions are just one page of diagrams, no actual instructions. As is my routine, I pulled everything out of the box, grabbed the instruction sheet and compared all the parts against it to make sure I had everything I needed. I was pleased to see a screwdriver included - no need to go dig through the junk drawer! So I studied the diagrams until I was fairly confident I knew what was what and I grabbed the first two pieces and corresponding screws, along with that lovely screwdriver that was included. I got that first screw in about halfway, and then it just wouldn't go any further, no matter how hard I tried. Finally I grabbed a second screw and figured I would try that to see if the problem is just the predrilled hole or something else. Again, it started good but couldn't get past halfway point. As my hand began to ache from my efforts and my husband laughed at me, I finally grabbed my phone to check the original listing for pointers. Nothing obvious, until I got to one review that mentioned an Allen wrench. Sure enough, when I dug deeper in the bag of screws, I found that darned little piece of metal that made my life 1000 times better. When I went back to those original screws, they went in like a dream. I had the rest of the thing put together in less time than I had struggled with those first two screws. So it turns out the screwdriver is only needed for attaching the wheels. The Allen wrench is not identified anywhere on the list of included parts, and because it was so well hidden in the bag of screws, I never even considered that I wasn't using the correct tool. Screwdriver was front and center, seemed obvious that it was intended to be used. Maybe I'm just a little dense or was having a bad day - I've put together so many pieces of furniture over the years that I can't even count them all, and I've never had a problem like this. I probably should have known that these screws needed an Allen wrench not Phillips screwdriver (in my defense, this was at 9 p.m. and not good lighting), but it would be so easy for the manufacturer to just include that with the other parts on the instruction sheet and save a ton of time and swearing.