You do not need permission to read a book in your hands, lend it to a friend or sell it at your local bookstore.

You are overly restricting yourself.

You are correct that no such permission is required to use, lend, or resell a book. It would be unethical for a seller to impose a requirement for such permission. By the poster’s analogy, it is similarly unethical to impose a requirement for permission prior to the owner’s use, lend, or resale of a computer. Since Google sells computers that cannot later be used without Google’s permission, Google is imposing such an unethical requirement.

That was not always the case. See older books that have legal hocus pocus written on the first page stating that you cannot resell this books without the express written consent of the publisher.

Now we have the first sale doctrine for many physical items. It’s not being applied to digital goods since we buy a license to the thing instead of a copy of the thing itself; or so the companies want to argue.

Yes that's his entire point.

Books can be made illegal.

Stop giving in to authoritianism by licking proverbial boots and using their excuses for them.

ah, metaphors, gen z worst and least understood enemy