Steve,
I find your remark about throwing away thousands of pages encouraging. It reminds me of a joke about a Uni. Vice-Chancellor trying to cut costs and talking to the Physics Department and saying "You're always asking me for such expensive equipment! Why can't you be more like the Maths. Department? All they ever want are pens, paper and waste baskets. Or even better, the Philosophy Department. They only want pens and paper"!