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I don't suppose he's backtracked on his awful position on auto-updates?

For those of us missing context, care to share?

I'm definitely not a fan of every launch of Calibre showing me a prompt to update, but I'm also not sold on apps that upgrade without my express consent.

Someone has packaged it for Windows using the Chocolatey NuGet package manager:

http://chocolatey.org/packages/calibre

I'm sure OS X has something similar, but I wouldn't know where to find it.

OSX has homebrew-cask [0, 1], which is built on homebrew to distribute binaries. I checked and a formula for calibre is present. [2]

[0]: http://caskroom.io/ [1]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask [2]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...

Unfortunately there's still no proper "upgrade" command for cask, there's a lengthy discussion on how to deal with that on their issue tracker [0] though. For now you'll still have to rely on a workaround.

Currently I'm using an alias to clear the old binary and download the new one. [1]

[0] https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/309

[1] https://blog.notmyhostna.me/make-calibre-updates-less-annoyi...

Too frequent updates have been an irritant for me, largely on account of my slow internet connection. I always felt that many of the updates could have been bundled, unless it was a major fix. But no, they kept flowing in![0]

More recently my reading habits have changed and I much prefer to go directly for my books on my desktop. I've uninstalled calibre now. All I really need is a cli or a basic client (much like ncmpc for mpd) for my books. I'm looking for something along those lines, and am also planning to do a hobby project for that if the urge grows.

[0] On every Arch Linux update.

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