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Originally Posted by sceadugenga
Firstly, when starting a sentence with e-Book is it e-Book or E-Book?
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I say either ebooks, eBooks seems awkward.
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What do you do with the e-Book when you've finished reading? Decades of dropping books on the carpet by the chair is going to have to cease, I can see that. The prospect of my lady friend putting her dainty foot on $300 worth of iRiver doesn't bear thinking about.
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If the device you're reading them into has possibility of archive/organization, I place the ebook in the appropriate collection/folder. If it's not the case, either I erase it or I let it be. These days I live with the laptop quite near and handy, so it's just a question of a few moves before I can arrange it back. I use calibre on my laptop, by the way.
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I hear there are people who like to eat and read at the same time. 
I suspect some sort of quasi-religious dietary rules may have to come into force here. The hand that dips the chips into the sauce will never turn an electronic page.
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There are ways not to use limbs, appendages or so. Like turning on the TTS options (no volume on) and adjusting the speed, or using a device like the PB360 with the appropriate hack- FBReader with timer to turn the page
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Wet area usage is another situation fraught with danger, many of us have dropped a book in the bath.
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Aquapack! Ziplock! Though I managed to read without dropping a naked Bebook Mini.
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Will certain situations always demand hard copy books?
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I don't know, I think it depends on the book and on the public it's intended for.