Welcome to the club... I have found on all the different BMW cars I have (had) that the glove compartment is ALWAYS to small for the leather binder they supply you with for the owner's manual. It either makes it really hard (or impossible) to close the glove box and if you do manage to get it crammed in there, it usually get's deformed by the latch...
It surprises me that in all these years they STILL have NOT caught on to this and figured out a different size for the owner's manual or adjusted the size of the glove compartment to make those binders fit...
Well at least in the F01 and newer cars they FINALLY put the owner's manual on the iDrive system
Next step should be to have a text to speech function so you don't have to read the manual
