Wow, do you see a lot of conspiracies?
Also, I'd like to point out that, like pretty much any calibre confirmation dialog, there is an option to Never Show This Message Again.
How would you suggest the update be changed to be easier? Should calibre download the update for you to run? Where to? And how does that work on linux which doesn't work that way? Etc.
I wouldn't mind if calibre came with an executable "calibre-upgrade", possibly based on my script. But I understand Kovid's main objection, which is:
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calibre downloads currently use about 100TB of bandwidth a month. Implementing automatic updates would greatly increase that and end up costing thousands of dollars a month, which someone has to pay. And calibre is currently growing at half a million new installs a month.
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So it's kind of a good thing that a user has to seriously care in order to update.

Why don't the update urls switch between the mirrors as well as the main site?