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Right now, my kitchen sink is filled with paper pulp, my blender has shredded paper and the kitchen counter is covered in 5x7 sheets of handmade paper (mostly from newspaper). Now that I have all of this paper, what do you recommend I do with it?

I would like to make books but I don't think that will work because the binding will take up a lot of space. do any of you know about glueing the sides of the pages together and possibly wrapping it in one larger sheet to hold together?

My whole idea is to not spend any money on this. I am using used envelopes, newspaper, printer paper, etc. to make the pulp, and when I take a shower I have been collecting the water that it takes to heat up the shower so that I can use that to put the pulp in. I'm hoping to be able to put these books together in the most environmentally conscious way. The paper is turning out pretty well. Maybe I'll take a few pictures of it.

I know that there are lots of memories about papermaking/bookmaking but I am looking for ways that don't involve chemicals. Does anyone know how to remove color from something without bleach? I know there are bleach alternatives but will they remove color? Would hydrogen peroxide work?