Ridiculous! You can not make a conclusion from a statement.
"Information can be stored in a matter/energy medium, but it is not the medium itself."
The storage is a configuration of energy. It's the configuration that has effect. Without any configuration of energy, there is nothing.
"Otherwise it would require a nuclear reaction (along the lines of E=mc^2) every time you read a book, to transfer the information from the ink on the page into light photons and on into your neurons!"
The whole process involves E=mc2. All elements of the process involve energy expendatures which are reductions in mass.
"Since information is not a property of the energy/matter it rides on, naturalistic theories for the origin of information will inevitably fail."
Information requires particular energy configurations, without which there is nothing.
What you seem to be missing is the origin of the information. It is not derived from matter...it is not a property of matter. It can only originate in a Mind. Period!