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See if I could get some very old people or otherwise have terminal illnesses volunteer to have their names written in it. We can use that data to experiment more with the note and figure out how it works. The existence of such an object implies massive things wrong with our current understanding of the universe, so figuring that out might be really helpful.
I believe it canonically can't run out of pages, so I'd think hard about how to leverage infinite free paper into world domination.
I don't think you can infinitely fast pull out papers of the death note, so I doubt that you can produce more paper per hour than the average paper factory.
Burn the paper to fuel a turbine. Congratulations you now have infinite free energy.
Then it turns out that Death Note smoke particles retain the magic qualities of the source. Writing one's name in dust with a fingertip becomes fraught with peril.
It may be extremely difficult to remove pages at a fast enough rate for this to be practically useful.
And you've set global warming to continue even beyond the exhaustion of fossil fuels.
The paper is white yes? If we can cover reasonably large areas of land with it it would make a pretty good reflector of solar radiation
You have to make sure nobody writes any names on it.