So basically, leftism, greenism, and anti-transhuman reactionism. Tell me why I don't like this particular superstition, again?

Pardon me for harshing your paperback-love, but as the possessor of two small libraries myself - one digital - I find the ebooks quite a lot easier to tote around, and less in the way when not in use.

There are basically two ways a paperback beats a PDF. A reflective rather than radiative viewing area, and a cheap power drain (amortized over the expense of transport). Those are technological problems - can you be certain they won't be solved in the next half decade? I certainly am not.

I don't think any sensible person suggested that computronium could simulate in total detail the same amount of matter than it's made of. That would be a violation of thermodynamics.

IIRC, the intended utility of antibacterial soap is to stop user-to-user contamination via germs left on the soap. This means that they probably do get a long enough exposure to be killed.