Eh, I'm just not a huge fan of my newsprint (by that I mean the unprinted packing paper) I used it for like 4 years for all of my snakes and, honestly I just never really cared for it. It just never really appealed to me. I ended up getting aspen again because I was breeding and wanted to do MI. I remembered how much I loved aspen and just... don't feel like going back to the paper. When I said "eh" my main point with it was that it feels bland to me.
Oh... have you considered cutting Eco Earth with aspen?