Does books really not synchronize between platforms?

I am reading a book in the Books app on my mac. When I open the same book (after some troubles downloading it) in Books on my iPhone I find that it does not sync my reading between the two apps. Although I have Books included in my iCloud scope on both of them.

Is this a local problem or an intentional non-feature?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Oct 10, 2022 09:52 AM

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erikno Author

Level 1

4 points

Oct 10, 2022 09:55 AM in response to erikno

Sorry! I withdraw the question, I found the error, I made it myself!

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