Review on Bamboo 360 Rotating Bookshelf With Wheels - Freestanding 5 Tier Rolling Bookcase For Home, Office, And Living Room Storage Organization by Hassan Tomlinson

I’ve recently moved to a small studio apartment, about 500 square feet, so space is precious. I ended up with all my craft books in big boxes in a closet. In order to have them more accessible, I decided I’d get this bookcase. A lovely product, it’s made of very slender pieces of bamboo wood, so it doesn’t dominate the room like a standard bookcase might—think in terms of a turnstile case in a bookshop. I got the dark rusty-brown style which looks very nice. The unassembled case came in a lightweight cardboard package that was easy to move (I’m a 76 year old female), with all parts intact and as described. It also had the usual hex tool and surprisingly a very nice Phillip’s screwdriver for assembly. The most useful part of the instructions was "be patient!” Not my strong suit, but I managed. It is somewhat awkward to assemble though no more so than this type of thing usually is. If I who am all thumbs can do it, you surely can. The assembled bookcase is around 5 feet in height with the wheels. The footprint is roughly 12 square inches. At first I was worried that it might be top heavy and unstable with a lot of heavy books on it, but it seems just fine. The wheels might have been just a little bigger, since it moves sluggishly with a full load. It pushes more easily than it pulls. It does rotate more easily, and that’s the important point, since the books are distributed in different directions. It can therefore occupy whatever corner you might have and will still be accessible. I found that a volume the height and length of a magazine—like Scientific American—would fit into the slots easily and vertically, resting upright in the usual position. Some books that were a little taller would fit into the slot resting on the opening edges, but the bottom edge will stick out from the shelf more. If what you have to place are books the size of standard murder mysteries, they’ll fit wonderfully; you might even get a double stack. My large picture book from the NY Metropolitan Museum, however, was too big to fit in either vertically or upended, so there are definite limits on size. Stabilizing rods that cross in the center of each cubical limit the depth of what you can store without having items sticking out of the shelf. The openings are adequate for about a 5 inch width of material in each of the 4 slots on four shelves. You could place some books flat on the top if you wanted to, or possibly a plant. (I just might do so to prevent my cats from torturing my ivy!)