I print research papers and other interesting writing fairly regularly at work, and read when I'm in the john or when I'm compiling. An awesome side benefit is that I've started handing papers to the folks I work with who like to socialize more than actually work. When I want to get something done and they don't, I mention something like "Hey, didn't you once say you studied distributed systems in school? Here's a paper for a peer-to-peer name service - would you mind giving it a read and telling me if it's really as awesome as I think it is?"

It seems to work, because now when these same folks come by they are talking about papers I handed them instead of how their cat needs its claws filed or some other trivia.