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Jordan Palmer
Personal blog · jccpalmer.com/postsprogrammingproductivity
Jordan Palmer's personal blog at jccpalmer.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's guide to syncing a Kobo eReader with a self-hosted calibre-web library without installing anything on the device. Commenters cite it as a setup guide that worked for them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibre-web/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-16
What Hacker News says?
https://jccpalmer.com/posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibr...
Comment linking /posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibre-web/
on “Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders”For anyone with a Kobo who only wants to be able to sync with calibre-web without installing anything on your device, here's a link to instructions: https://jccpalmer.com/posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibr... I'm not associate with this person, just know that these instructions worked for me.
Comment linking /posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibre-web/
on “KOReader”I’m using Calibre Web and it syncs with Kobo just fine. It’s a minor change to the config and then you can sync with your own library. Self hosted in Docker, I browse to the book I want, add it to a ‘shelf’ that is synchronised. then on the Kobo I press sync. It downloads. I used a guide that was something like this: https://jccpalmer.com/posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibr...
Comment linking /posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibre-web/
on “Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery”