diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
index a967285c941f..950d7032882b 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, python, pyqt5, sip_4_16, poppler_utils, pkgconfig, libpng
 , imagemagick, libjpeg, fontconfig, podofo, qt5, icu, sqlite
-, pil, makeWrapper, unrar, chmlib, pythonPackages, xz, libusb1, libmtp
+, makeWrapper, unrar, chmlib, pythonPackages, xz, libusb1, libmtp
 , xdg_utils
 }:
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs =
     [ python pyqt5 sip_4_16 poppler_utils libpng imagemagick libjpeg
-      fontconfig podofo qt5.base pil chmlib icu sqlite libusb1 libmtp xdg_utils
+      fontconfig podofo qt5.base chmlib icu sqlite libusb1 libmtp xdg_utils
       pythonPackages.mechanize pythonPackages.lxml pythonPackages.dateutil
       pythonPackages.cssutils pythonPackages.beautifulsoup pythonPackages.pillow
       pythonPackages.sqlite3 pythonPackages.netifaces pythonPackages.apsw