I'm unsure of what I'm going to do when I get around to revising my first novel. It's slightly over 500 pages in double-spaced Courier, which is waaaaaay too much paper to use to print it out. Not sure if it'll work for me, since I'll need to make major revisions, completely re-write several large sections, and make a lot of notes, which is hard to do by hand.

Your theory is interesting. I wonder if it holds any truth to it. I might test it out with a short story though, since it won't be as much of a hassle as a novel to revise it by hand.