Well now, that's interesting. This discussion got me curious, and I decided to update Calibre again to see if the Linux download is any faster than my previous experience. This time, it went through in under a minute, comparable to the Windows download.
The only thing I can figure is that for some reason, each time I tried updating Calibre in the past, I was unlucky and happened to try downloading it on a day when my internet access was slow, either at my ISP or somewhere between the Calibre download site and me. Seems rather unlikely, but hey, stranger things have happened.
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