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It depends on how ambitious you are just how long your SSD will last. If you have a smaller collection of a few hundred works, there is no reason your drive shouldn't last a good long time. If you are a conversion maniac who has to convert the entire contents of gutenberg.org or sources in pdf, you could even find it die in months. This is one case where your mileage will definitely vary depending on how you use it.
It may be worth it financially if you work at this for a living all day, if you get that much of pickup in performance, though to my mind, the increase probably isn't worth it.
One other angle is to make sure you have enough memory so that you are never forced back into virtual memory from the SSD. A Linux/Mac installation I believe will make more use use of memory above 4GB than a Windows one will, since calibre, I believe is a 32 bit application. If that is true, then not running a ton of other memory eaters will help keep you out of virtual memory.
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