I'd agree with that. My desks tend to quickly end up buried under books, papers, desk tools, mail, and everything else that I lay there ``just until I put it a

I'd agree with that. My desks tend to quickly end up buried under books, papers, desk tools, mail, and everything else that I lay there ``just until I put it away''. About half of the people I know do the same thing, especially when it's their desk at home. This desk almost seems to be designed to not allow that to happen, which is counts as a feature rather than a bug to my mind. A nice compromise would be to use butcher-paper that's less wide than your desk is deep, leaving perhaps the back third of the desk uncovered. That way, you can put your various permanent pieces of desk furniture --- pen-pots, charger cables, paper trays, whatever else --- at the back of your desk and still have the front two-thirds as a rolling writing surface. That also probably makes it easier to use 100% of the depth of the writing surface, because reaching right to the back of the desk isn't really practical. A relatively standard UK desk is about 800mm, or ~32", deep, so having the back 300mm/~11" uncovered would work out pretty well. Edit: Just realised that this comment describes a solution that's functionally equivalent to panic's comment one level above[0], though does vary a little in the method of implementation. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9202054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9202054