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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
buying a book, fresh adverts or downloading a book stored in Cloud Library is not a definition of Sync commonly used elsewhere. Sync is to update reading status between apps/devices or possibly reading status of a library book.
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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” -- Lewis Carroll
Given the multiple meanings of synchronization, your attempt to cherry pick one meaning is risible. A rather general definition I've seen for computer/data processing would be the process of making two or more data stores or programs either in the same or different computers to have the same information at a given time.
So, contrary to your opinion, downloading a library book from the library server to my ereader would be synchronization. The same for an ebook purchased from Kobo. Ditto for sending my current reading information to Kobo.
Heck, even my alarm clock automatically correcting it's time from NIST is termed synchronization though if the Trump administration has it's way and shuts down WWV, WWVB and WWVH, that functionality will be lost.