diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
index 07e0a62b901b..85a644e5f1b9 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
@@ -22,15 +22,16 @@
 , libmtp
 , xdg-utils
 , removeReferencesTo
+, libstemmer
 }:
 
 mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "calibre";
-  version = "5.17.0";
+  version = "5.24.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://download.calibre-ebook.com/${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    hash = "sha256-rdiBL3Y3q/0wFfWGE4jGkWakgV8hA9HjDcKXso6tVrs=";
+    hash = "sha256:18dr577nv7ijw3ar6mrk2xrc54mlrqkaj5jrc6s5sirl0710fdfg";
   };
 
   patches = [
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ mkDerivation rec {
     libjpeg
     libmtp
     libpng
+    libstemmer
     libusb1
     podofo
     poppler_utils
@@ -73,7 +75,9 @@ mkDerivation rec {
     xdg-utils
   ] ++ (
     with python3Packages; [
-      apsw
+      (apsw.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
+        setupPyBuildFlags = [ "--enable=load_extension" ];
+      }))
       beautifulsoup4
       cchardet
       css-parser
@@ -95,15 +99,7 @@ mkDerivation rec {
       python
       regex
       sip
-      (zeroconf.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
-        version = "0.31.0";
-        src = fetchFromGitHub {
-          owner = "jstasiak";
-          repo = "python-zeroconf";
-          rev = version;
-          sha256 = "158dqay74zvnz6kmpvip4ml0kw59nf2aaajwgaamx0zc8ci1p5pj";
-        };
-      }))
+      zeroconf
       # the following are distributed with calibre, but we use upstream instead
       odfpy
     ] ++ lib.optional (unrarSupport) unrardll