diff --git a/app-text/calibre/Manifest b/app-text/calibre/Manifest
index 1dbc52b9dbeee..b7fa4c7a7a327 100644
--- a/app-text/calibre/Manifest
+++ b/app-text/calibre/Manifest
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 DIST calibre-8.15.0.tar.xz 45759104 BLAKE2B ce8ca1a0bd9cbbb916a993b4c139efd1ff49d697aef3088322f06f4bac85d9a9e5d648a664fd75ef621c1e6021a67d6696e2a2a3b58a73651097bf3c6a774ca9 SHA512 7713ae8304e887dad320cddd6eceeec79bdb9de88e23ed2d50c0d2da429e25b2d761646259ffda47682ce07ed556bd47129561bd193c7953bd72867b98b0674c
 DIST calibre-8.15.0.tar.xz.sig 566 BLAKE2B e994b448ef1f08051d2a4ce254a83d37ec6fe3c99f416c0203b892ac35ee4a26151f07ea838929ed91e4024b6688bff5c26aec587bb39e9bdab185970bced520 SHA512 faff5e863c92e537b19e651aa9082359e530ff3c6412954c6eee339fa5a16614e16e3ee489f2c67e64a08a1c4db55c5dbaae4466caeb694aa8dd63093fd25834
-DIST calibre-8.4.0.tar.xz 44113820 BLAKE2B 3580124b04d9aef19c6ac2c1e3bdf5aa86f128a7e0f34a3ae80f07493127ca16b7edc72800cf9b200e926198ed92d5bef671a483d0572a6f6ae67fde64638f2e SHA512 df998fa31b9e581739872a649669fccf29f34d3ac1b4d0a96c37e08a0b049b1357b56a2af25f2733936e78901dd61b38a24e536e107e7094ada7e60a5c2c56ab
-DIST calibre-8.4.0.tar.xz.sig 566 BLAKE2B 7b353272722cfea8e57c274671dde100df7d351e2c5bafb3ab55c221d3290ce45f3627087a91f97b27080f6762596c788bf308ae4b49fe6ebb25d6ee85bf419c SHA512 7cd17aa5c8be1eb736c1ef8e98f91ecc313ed00da7760e6d234ff9b56a23c1f5a382dff8b3c0b7145443b6c2871f224a6ed47ddd39eaacfb380353c3f78c8344
-DIST calibre-8.7.0.tar.xz 45111468 BLAKE2B 2b8042f44422945a027f289015e5c9a42450b94ca0e53cdbaac7d0a2f7f41ea2a19f3e90b702f043a086e7218d4d9a25b441bc5b516c3e7f6454422d2c4accd1 SHA512 12d6f49d09edef8677a966198b0b05da9f8deee3c3ff6980804e13561edc35a515555e6a8cb53be70925bc3bdb8e3714cb018454f4e5da4794105b0fe53bba63
-DIST calibre-8.7.0.tar.xz.sig 566 BLAKE2B 1d24f99f6311d55a5a9f0fc5cd23c17b8f5296f5fb8a8a24125fe8cbdda6ab2b9520bd70c91b1b0f0a3d30281c44c84aa397ed9d6f3447f898fe52e89f756f64 SHA512 6e5d555d622a01b78b9a291640099751cea2658d39d03b0a5d80623fedfd6fe8145c0d53fd90dcbb62fb08d593db086f00c4d531eb499ad9fcbbdac21059b132
 DIST calibre-8.9.0.tar.xz 45078452 BLAKE2B af1459c99f93ab9ac73c8fde34a0e4ac179e262978976dd1298f74e26b6a9e28218f87cbebde8a4a5bea913bf5fe1db4bfb083c7a1f14a6c588a7c2e8695f9e7 SHA512 b00fc0d0d5426bd54a4897ff934afbe0e2f3d682b3ad1bbf4c7741f0a093dfb259511b40bb13ce9ac1cb8f6e447cc24229525a171b675edc738fde1272668aab
 DIST calibre-8.9.0.tar.xz.sig 566 BLAKE2B 83bf8f8545e942ddb3766ce0326128157f5e8d59965a672b91660b85ff4b05cee9c9a72fe96d1aa753e149d8789d84bed7668c4ced4ab8b5b1f11dc44b5e6b1c SHA512 18896b442e6c18ff88d6e4e79ae90a829ef03235937dd9760a58ccb87cfb88d604b949fc5939ab62a1503f189616f2df35ad7c6883ca1a4238a0da0e18cb96c3
diff --git a/app-text/calibre/calibre-8.4.0.ebuild b/app-text/calibre/calibre-8.4.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ed7122b5d8d0..0000000000000
--- a/app-text/calibre/calibre-8.4.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,257 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
-PYTHON_REQ_USE="sqlite,ssl"
-
-inherit edo toolchain-funcs python-single-r1 qmake-utils verify-sig xdg
-
-DESCRIPTION="Ebook management application"
-HOMEPAGE="https://calibre-ebook.com/"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://download.calibre-ebook.com/${PV}/${P}.tar.xz
-	verify-sig? ( https://calibre-ebook.com/signatures/${P}.tar.xz.sig )
-"
-VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/kovidgoyal.gpg
-
-LICENSE="
-	GPL-3+
-	GPL-3
-	GPL-2+
-	GPL-2
-	GPL-1+
-	LGPL-3+
-	LGPL-2.1+
-	LGPL-2.1
-	BSD
-	MIT
-	Old-MIT
-	Apache-2.0
-	public-domain
-	|| ( Artistic GPL-1+ )
-	CC-BY-3.0
-	OFL-1.1
-	PSF-2
-"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64"
-IUSE="+font-subsetting ios speech +system-mathjax test +udisks unrar"
-
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
-
-# Qt slotted dependencies are used because the libheadless.so plugin links to
-# QT_*_PRIVATE_ABI. It only uses core/gui/dbus.
-COMMON_DEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	app-i18n/uchardet
-	>=app-text/hunspell-1.7:=
-	>=app-text/podofo-0.10.0:=
-	app-text/poppler[utils]
-	dev-libs/hyphen:=
-	>=dev-libs/icu-57.1:=
-	dev-libs/openssl:=
-	dev-libs/snowball-stemmer:=
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-		>=dev-python/apsw-3.25.2_p1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/beautifulsoup4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/css-parser-1.0.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/dnspython[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/feedparser-5.2.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/html2text-2019.8.11[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/html5-parser-0.4.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/jeepney[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/lxml-3.8.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/lxml-html-clean[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/markdown-3.0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/mechanize-0.3.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/msgpack-0.6.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/netifaces-0.10.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/pillow-3.2.0[jpeg,truetype,webp,zlib,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/psutil-4.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/pychm-0.8.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pykakasi[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/pygments-2.3.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/python-dateutil-2.5.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pyqt6[gui,network,opengl,printsupport,quick,svg,widgets,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pyqt6-webengine[widgets,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/regex[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/xxhash[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/zeroconf-0.75.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	')
-	dev-qt/qtbase:6=[gui,widgets]
-	dev-qt/qtimageformats:6
-	dev-util/desktop-file-utils
-	dev-util/gtk-update-icon-cache
-	media-fonts/liberation-fonts
-	media-libs/fontconfig:=
-	>=media-libs/freetype-2:=
-	>=media-libs/libmtp-1.1.11:=
-	>=media-gfx/optipng-0.7.6
-	>=media-video/ffmpeg-6:=
-	virtual/libusb:1=
-	x11-misc/shared-mime-info
-	>=x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.0.2-r2
-	font-subsetting? ( $(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/fonttools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]') )
-	ios? (
-		>=app-pda/usbmuxd-1.0.8
-		>=app-pda/libimobiledevice-1.2.0
-	)
-	speech? (
-		$(python_gen_cond_dep 'app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]')
-		dev-python/pyqt6[multimedia,speech]
-	)
-	system-mathjax? ( >=dev-libs/mathjax-3:= )
-	udisks? ( virtual/libudev )
-	unrar? ( dev-python/unrardll )
-"
-RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
-	udisks? ( sys-fs/udisks:2 )"
-DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
-	test? ( $(python_gen_cond_dep '>=dev-python/chardet-3.0.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]') )
-"
-BDEPEND="$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-		>=dev-python/pyqt-builder-1.10.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/sip-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	')
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	system-mathjax? ( dev-lang/rapydscript-ng )
-	verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-kovidgoyal )
-"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	# Skip calling a binary (JxrDecApp) from libjxr which is used for tests
-	# We don't (yet?) package libjxr and it seems to be dead upstream
-	# (last commit in 2017)
-	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-7.0.0-jxr-test.patch"
-
-	# Backport of https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/ae83537ef8b338724d389520ad6fbbebe83d1b0a
-	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-lfs64.patch"
-)
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	# Warning:
-	#
-	# While it might be rather tempting to add yet another sed here,
-	# please don't. There have been several bugs in Gentoo's packaging
-	# of calibre from seds-which-become-stale. Please consider
-	# creating a patch instead, but in any case, run the test suite
-	# and ensure it passes.
-	#
-	# If in doubt about a problem, checking Fedora's packaging is recommended.
-
-	# Disable unnecessary privilege dropping for bug #287067.
-	sed -e "s:if os.geteuid() == 0:if False and os.geteuid() == 0:" \
-		-i setup/install.py || die "sed failed to patch install.py"
-
-	# This is only ever used at build time. It contains a small embedded copy
-	# of the rapydscript-ng compiler usable inside of qtwebengine, if you don't
-	# have rapydscript-ng (a nodejs package) itself installed. Its only purpose
-	# is to build some resources that come bundled in dist tarballs already...
-	# and which we may also need to regenerate e.g. to use system-mathjax.
-	#
-	# However, running qtwebengine violates the portage sandbox (among other
-	# things, it tries to create directories in /usr! amazing) so this is a
-	# wash anyway. The only real solution here is to package rapydscript-ng.
-	#
-	# We do not need it at build time, and *no one* needs it at install time.
-	# Delete the cruft.
-	rm -r resources/rapydscript/ || die
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	# TODO: get qmake called by setup.py to respect CC and CXX too
-	tc-export CC CXX
-
-	# bug 821871
-	local MY_LIBDIR="${ESYSROOT}/usr/$(get_libdir)"
-	export FT_LIB_DIR="${MY_LIBDIR}" HUNSPELL_LIB_DIR="${MY_LIBDIR}" PODOFO_LIB_DIR="${MY_LIBDIR}"
-	export QMAKE="$(qt6_get_bindir)/qmake"
-
-	edo ${EPYTHON} setup.py build
-	edo ${EPYTHON} setup.py gui
-
-	# A few different resources are bundled in the distfile by default, because
-	# not all systems necessarily have them. We un-vendor them, using the
-	# upstream integrated approach if possible. See setup/revendor.py and
-	# consider migrating other resources to this if they do not use it, in
-	# *preference* over manual rm'ing.
-	edo ${EPYTHON} setup.py liberation_fonts \
-		--path-to-liberation_fonts "${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/fonts/liberation-fonts \
-		--system-liberation_fonts
-	if use system-mathjax; then
-		edo ${EPYTHON} setup.py mathjax --path-to-mathjax "${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/mathjax --system-mathjax
-		edo ${EPYTHON} setup.py rapydscript
-	fi
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# Skipped tests:
-	local _test_excludes=(
-		# unpackaged Python dependency: py7zr
-		7z
-		# unpackaged Python dependency: pyzstd
-		test_zstd
-		# unpackaged TTS backend (optional at runtime): https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
-		piper
-		# tests if a completely unused module is bundled
-		pycryptodome
-
-		$(usev !speech speech_dispatcher)
-		$(usev !unrar test_unrar)
-
-		# undocumented reasons
-		test_mem_leaks
-		test_searching
-	)
-
-	# Some of these tests weren't practical to split out into distinct tests, so
-	# have a different control mechanism
-	use speech || export SKIP_SPEECH_TESTS=1
-
-	edo ${PYTHON} setup.py test "${_test_excludes[@]/#/--exclude-test-name=}"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	# Bug #352625 - Some LANGUAGE values can trigger the following ValueError:
-	#   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 486, in getdefaultlocale
-	#    return _parse_localename(localename)
-	#  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 418, in _parse_localename
-	#    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
-	#ValueError: unknown locale: 46
-	export -n LANG LANGUAGE ${!LC_*}
-	export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 # bug #709682
-
-	# Bug #295672 - Avoid sandbox violation in ~/.config by forcing
-	# variables to point to our fake temporary $HOME.
-	export HOME="${T}/fake_homedir"
-	export CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY="${HOME}/.config/calibre"
-	mkdir -p "${CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY}" || die
-
-	addpredict /dev/dri #665310
-
-	# If this directory doesn't exist, zsh completion won't install
-	dodir /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
-
-	edo "${PYTHON}" setup.py install \
-		--staging-root="${ED}/usr" \
-		--prefix="${EPREFIX}/usr" \
-		--libdir="${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)" \
-		--staging-libdir="${ED}/usr/$(get_libdir)" \
-		--system-plugins-location="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/calibre/system-plugins"
-
-	cp -r man-pages/ "${ED}"/usr/share/man || die
-
-	find "${ED}"/usr/share -type d -empty -delete || die
-
-	python_fix_shebang "${ED}/usr/bin"
-
-	python_optimize "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/calibre "${D}/$(python_get_sitedir)"
-
-	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/calibre-server-3.init calibre-server
-	newconfd "${FILESDIR}"/calibre-server-3.conf calibre-server
-}
diff --git a/app-text/calibre/calibre-8.7.0.ebuild b/app-text/calibre/calibre-8.7.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index b7f5471f7ba2f..0000000000000
--- a/app-text/calibre/calibre-8.7.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,255 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
-PYTHON_REQ_USE="sqlite,ssl"
-
-inherit edo toolchain-funcs python-single-r1 qmake-utils verify-sig xdg
-
-DESCRIPTION="Ebook management application"
-HOMEPAGE="https://calibre-ebook.com/"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://download.calibre-ebook.com/${PV}/${P}.tar.xz
-	verify-sig? ( https://calibre-ebook.com/signatures/${P}.tar.xz.sig )
-"
-VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/kovidgoyal.gpg
-
-LICENSE="
-	GPL-3+
-	GPL-3
-	GPL-2+
-	GPL-2
-	GPL-1+
-	LGPL-3+
-	LGPL-2.1+
-	LGPL-2.1
-	BSD
-	MIT
-	Old-MIT
-	Apache-2.0
-	public-domain
-	|| ( Artistic GPL-1+ )
-	CC-BY-3.0
-	OFL-1.1
-	PSF-2
-"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
-IUSE="+font-subsetting ios speech +system-mathjax test +udisks unrar"
-
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
-
-# Qt slotted dependencies are used because the libheadless.so plugin links to
-# QT_*_PRIVATE_ABI. It only uses core/gui/dbus.
-COMMON_DEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	app-i18n/uchardet
-	>=app-text/hunspell-1.7:=
-	>=app-text/podofo-0.10.0:=
-	app-text/poppler[utils]
-	dev-libs/hyphen:=
-	>=dev-libs/icu-57.1:=
-	dev-libs/openssl:=
-	dev-libs/snowball-stemmer:=
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-		>=dev-python/apsw-3.25.2_p1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/beautifulsoup4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/css-parser-1.0.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/dnspython[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/feedparser-5.2.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/html2text-2019.8.11[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/html5-parser-0.4.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/jeepney[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/lxml-3.8.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/lxml-html-clean[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/markdown-3.0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/mechanize-0.3.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/msgpack-0.6.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/netifaces-0.10.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/pillow-3.2.0[jpeg,truetype,webp,zlib,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/psutil-4.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/pychm-0.8.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pykakasi[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/pygments-2.3.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/python-dateutil-2.5.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pyqt6[gui,network,opengl,printsupport,quick,svg,widgets,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pyqt6-webengine[widgets,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/regex[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/xxhash[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/zeroconf-0.75.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	')
-	dev-qt/qtbase:6=[gui,widgets]
-	dev-qt/qtimageformats:6
-	dev-util/desktop-file-utils
-	dev-util/gtk-update-icon-cache
-	media-fonts/liberation-fonts
-	media-libs/fontconfig:=
-	>=media-libs/freetype-2:=
-	>=media-libs/libmtp-1.1.11:=
-	>=media-gfx/optipng-0.7.6
-	>=media-video/ffmpeg-6:=
-	virtual/libusb:1=
-	x11-misc/shared-mime-info
-	>=x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.0.2-r2
-	font-subsetting? ( $(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/fonttools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]') )
-	ios? (
-		>=app-pda/usbmuxd-1.0.8
-		>=app-pda/libimobiledevice-1.2.0
-	)
-	speech? (
-		$(python_gen_cond_dep 'app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]')
-		dev-python/pyqt6[multimedia,speech]
-	)
-	system-mathjax? ( >=dev-libs/mathjax-3:= )
-	udisks? ( virtual/libudev )
-	unrar? ( dev-python/unrardll )
-"
-RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
-	udisks? ( sys-fs/udisks:2 )"
-DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
-	test? ( $(python_gen_cond_dep '>=dev-python/chardet-3.0.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]') )
-"
-BDEPEND="$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-		>=dev-python/pyqt-builder-1.10.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/sip-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	')
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	system-mathjax? ( dev-lang/rapydscript-ng )
-	verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-kovidgoyal )
-"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	# Skip calling a binary (JxrDecApp) from libjxr which is used for tests
-	# We don't (yet?) package libjxr and it seems to be dead upstream
-	# (last commit in 2017)
-	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-7.0.0-jxr-test.patch"
-)
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	# Warning:
-	#
-	# While it might be rather tempting to add yet another sed here,
-	# please don't. There have been several bugs in Gentoo's packaging
-	# of calibre from seds-which-become-stale. Please consider
-	# creating a patch instead, but in any case, run the test suite
-	# and ensure it passes.
-	#
-	# If in doubt about a problem, checking Fedora's packaging is recommended.
-
-	# Disable privilege dropping for bug #287067 and generally because desktop
-	# login user != portage.
-	sed -e "s:SUDO_:__DISABLED_SUDO_:" \
-		-i setup/__init__.py || die
-
-	# This is only ever used at build time. It contains a small embedded copy
-	# of the rapydscript-ng compiler usable inside of qtwebengine, if you don't
-	# have rapydscript-ng (a nodejs package) itself installed. Its only purpose
-	# is to build some resources that come bundled in dist tarballs already...
-	# and which we may also need to regenerate e.g. to use system-mathjax.
-	#
-	# However, running qtwebengine violates the portage sandbox (among other
-	# things, it tries to create directories in /usr! amazing) so this is a
-	# wash anyway. The only real solution here is to package rapydscript-ng.
-	#
-	# We do not need it at build time, and *no one* needs it at install time.
-	# Delete the cruft.
-	rm -r resources/rapydscript/ || die
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	# TODO: get qmake called by setup.py to respect CC and CXX too
-	tc-export CC CXX
-
-	# bug 821871
-	local MY_LIBDIR="${ESYSROOT}/usr/$(get_libdir)"
-	export FT_LIB_DIR="${MY_LIBDIR}" HUNSPELL_LIB_DIR="${MY_LIBDIR}" PODOFO_LIB_DIR="${MY_LIBDIR}"
-	export QMAKE="$(qt6_get_bindir)/qmake"
-
-	edo ${EPYTHON} setup.py build
-	edo ${EPYTHON} setup.py gui
-
-	# A few different resources are bundled in the distfile by default, because
-	# not all systems necessarily have them. We un-vendor them, using the
-	# upstream integrated approach if possible. See setup/revendor.py and
-	# consider migrating other resources to this if they do not use it, in
-	# *preference* over manual rm'ing.
-	edo ${EPYTHON} setup.py liberation_fonts \
-		--path-to-liberation_fonts "${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/fonts/liberation-fonts \
-		--system-liberation_fonts
-	if use system-mathjax; then
-		edo ${EPYTHON} setup.py mathjax --path-to-mathjax "${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/mathjax --system-mathjax
-		edo ${EPYTHON} setup.py rapydscript
-	fi
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# Skipped tests:
-	local _test_excludes=(
-		# unpackaged Python dependency: py7zr
-		7z
-		# unpackaged Python dependency: pyzstd
-		test_zstd
-		# unpackaged TTS backend (optional at runtime): https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
-		piper
-		# tests if a completely unused module is bundled
-		pycryptodome
-
-		$(usev !speech speech_dispatcher)
-		$(usev !unrar test_unrar)
-
-		# undocumented reasons
-		test_mem_leaks
-		test_searching
-	)
-
-	# Some of these tests weren't practical to split out into distinct tests, so
-	# have a different control mechanism
-	use speech || export SKIP_SPEECH_TESTS=1
-
-	edo ${PYTHON} setup.py test "${_test_excludes[@]/#/--exclude-test-name=}"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	# Bug #352625 - Some LANGUAGE values can trigger the following ValueError:
-	#   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 486, in getdefaultlocale
-	#    return _parse_localename(localename)
-	#  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 418, in _parse_localename
-	#    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
-	#ValueError: unknown locale: 46
-	export -n LANG LANGUAGE ${!LC_*}
-	export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 # bug #709682
-
-	# Bug #295672 - Avoid sandbox violation in ~/.config by forcing
-	# variables to point to our fake temporary $HOME.
-	export HOME="${T}/fake_homedir"
-	export CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY="${HOME}/.config/calibre"
-	mkdir -p "${CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY}" || die
-
-	addpredict /dev/dri #665310
-
-	# If this directory doesn't exist, zsh completion won't install
-	dodir /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
-
-	edo "${PYTHON}" setup.py install \
-		--staging-root="${ED}/usr" \
-		--prefix="${EPREFIX}/usr" \
-		--libdir="${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)" \
-		--staging-libdir="${ED}/usr/$(get_libdir)" \
-		--system-plugins-location="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/calibre/system-plugins"
-
-	cp -r man-pages/ "${ED}"/usr/share/man || die
-
-	find "${ED}"/usr/share -type d -empty -delete || die
-
-	python_fix_shebang "${ED}/usr/bin"
-
-	python_optimize "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/calibre "${D}/$(python_get_sitedir)"
-
-	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/calibre-server-3.init calibre-server
-	newconfd "${FILESDIR}"/calibre-server-3.conf calibre-server
-}
diff --git a/app-text/calibre/calibre-8.9.0.ebuild b/app-text/calibre/calibre-8.9.0.ebuild
index 44add51d1b8bb..5b7f92fe2e89f 100644
--- a/app-text/calibre/calibre-8.9.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/calibre/calibre-8.9.0.ebuild
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ PATCHES=(
 	# (last commit in 2017)
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-7.0.0-jxr-test.patch"
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-8.9.0-piper.patch"
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-8.9-qt6.10.patch"
 )
 
 src_prepare() {
diff --git a/app-text/calibre/files/calibre-8.4.0-lfs64.patch b/app-text/calibre/files/calibre-8.4.0-lfs64.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f3663d962db6b..0000000000000
--- a/app-text/calibre/files/calibre-8.4.0-lfs64.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-From https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/ae83537ef8b338724d389520ad6fbbebe83d1b0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 07:55:59 +0530
-Subject: [PATCH] pread64() -> pread()
-
-We dont support 32 bit architectures anymore anyway, but define
-_FILE_OFFSET_BITS to be safe, only in speedups.c to minimize an
-side-effect risks.
-
-Fixes #2769 (Define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and replace usage of pread64)
---- a/src/calibre/utils/speedup.c
-+++ b/src/calibre/utils/speedup.c
-@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
- #define UNICODE
- #define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
-+#ifndef _FILE_OFFSET_BITS
-+#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
-+#endif
- 
- #include <Python.h>
- #include <datetime.h>
-@@ -747,12 +750,8 @@ pread_all(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
-             if (err != ERROR_HANDLE_EOF) saved_errno = err;
-             break;
-         }
--#else
--#ifdef __linux__
--        ssize_t nr = pread64(fd, buf + pos, n - pos, offset);
- #else
-         ssize_t nr = pread(fd, buf + pos, n - pos, offset);
--#endif
-         if (nr < 0) {
-             if (errno == EINTR || errno == EAGAIN) continue;
-             saved_errno = errno;
diff --git a/app-text/calibre/files/calibre-8.9-qt6.10.patch b/app-text/calibre/files/calibre-8.9-qt6.10.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c1b2937d3b662
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/calibre/files/calibre-8.9-qt6.10.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+From 4c44e8f76f197629af695091c49b1a0efbb30bae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Marcin Serwin <marcin@serwin.dev>
+Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:00:04 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix building with Qt 6.10
+
+Qt 6.10 no longer implicitly imports private modules, see https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/whatsnew610.html#build-system-changes.
+---
+ src/calibre/headless/CMakeLists.txt | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/calibre/headless/CMakeLists.txt b/src/calibre/headless/CMakeLists.txt
+index c2c8fa88e58f..3fc5d8e4862f 100644
+--- a/src/calibre/headless/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/calibre/headless/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
+ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.21)
+ project(headless)
+ set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
+-find_package(Qt6Gui REQUIRED)
++find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Gui GuiPrivate Core CorePrivate)
+ add_library(headless MODULE main.cpp headless_backingstore.cpp headless_integration.cpp)
+ set_property(TARGET headless PROPERTY QT_PLUGIN_TYPE "platforms")
+ set_property(TARGET headless PROPERTY QT_PLUGIN_CLASS_NAME "HeadlessIntegrationPlugin")
+-target_link_libraries(headless PRIVATE Qt::Gui Qt::GuiPrivate Qt::Core Qt::CorePrivate)
++target_link_libraries(headless PRIVATE Qt6::Gui Qt6::GuiPrivate Qt6::Core Qt6::CorePrivate)
+
+
+From 8820bffc86631ca7020177a4998b478141a7b8c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
+Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 08:26:28 +0530
+Subject: [PATCH] Only change CMakeLists.txt for headless if actually building
+ with Qt >= 6.10
+
+---
+ setup/build.py                      | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
+ setup/build_environment.py          |  3 ++-
+ src/calibre/headless/CMakeLists.txt |  3 ++-
+ 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup/build.py b/setup/build.py
+index 5ed34720dbb9..7816493ad94b 100644
+--- a/setup/build.py
++++ b/setup/build.py
+@@ -648,6 +648,22 @@ def build_headless(self):
+         bdir = self.j(self.build_dir, 'headless')
+         if os.path.exists(bdir):
+             shutil.rmtree(bdir)
++        sdir = os.path.join(bdir, 'src')
++        shutil.copytree(os.path.dirname(sources[0]), sdir)
++        with open(os.path.join(sdir, 'CMakeLists.txt'), 'r+') as f:
++            raw = f.read()
++            qt = lazy_load('qt')
++            if qt['version'] >= (6, 10):
++                fp = 'find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Gui GuiPrivate Core CorePrivate)'
++                ll = 'target_link_libraries(headless PRIVATE Qt6::Gui Qt6::GuiPrivate Qt6::Core Qt6::CorePrivate)'
++            else:
++                fp = 'find_package(Qt6Gui REQUIRED)'
++                ll = 'target_link_libraries(headless PRIVATE Qt::Gui Qt::GuiPrivate Qt::Core Qt::CorePrivate)'
++            raw = raw.replace('__FIND_GUI__', fp)
++            raw = raw.replace('__LINK_TARGETS__', ll)
++            f.seek(0), f.truncate()
++            f.write(raw)
++        bdir = os.path.join(bdir, 'build')
+         cmd = [CMAKE]
+         if is_macos_universal_build:
+             cmd += ['-DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=x86_64;arm64']
+@@ -657,7 +673,7 @@ def build_headless(self):
+         cwd = os.getcwd()
+         os.chdir(bdir)
+         try:
+-            self.check_call(cmd + ['-S', os.path.dirname(sources[0])])
++            self.check_call(cmd + ['-S', sdir])
+             self.check_call([self.env.make] + [f'-j{cpu_count or 1}'])
+         finally:
+             os.chdir(cwd)
+diff --git a/setup/build_environment.py b/setup/build_environment.py
+index a0fd7f2dd260..f5ca099d71a1 100644
+--- a/setup/build_environment.py
++++ b/setup/build_environment.py
+@@ -119,8 +119,9 @@ def readvar(name):
+     return re.search(f'^{name}:(.+)$', qraw, flags=re.M).group(1).strip()
+ 
+ 
+-qt = {x:readvar(y) for x, y in {'libs':'QT_INSTALL_LIBS', 'plugins':'QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS'}.items()}
++qt = {x:readvar(y) for x, y in {'libs':'QT_INSTALL_LIBS', 'plugins':'QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS', 'version_str': 'QT_VERSION'}.items()}
+ qmakespec = readvar('QMAKE_SPEC') if iswindows else None
++qt['version'] = tuple(map(int, qt['version_str'].split('.')[:2]))
+ freetype_lib_dirs = []
+ freetype_libs = []
+ freetype_inc_dirs = []
+diff --git a/src/calibre/headless/CMakeLists.txt b/src/calibre/headless/CMakeLists.txt
+index 3fc5d8e4862f..49b110477b6d 100644
+--- a/src/calibre/headless/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/calibre/headless/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
+ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.21)
+ project(headless)
+ set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
++__FIND_GUI__
+ find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Gui GuiPrivate Core CorePrivate)
+ add_library(headless MODULE main.cpp headless_backingstore.cpp headless_integration.cpp)
+ set_property(TARGET headless PROPERTY QT_PLUGIN_TYPE "platforms")
+ set_property(TARGET headless PROPERTY QT_PLUGIN_CLASS_NAME "HeadlessIntegrationPlugin")
+-target_link_libraries(headless PRIVATE Qt6::Gui Qt6::GuiPrivate Qt6::Core Qt6::CorePrivate)
++__LINK_TARGETS__
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 8ada2e7c5b2c2..d565992ab6aa9 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@
 
 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
+# Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> (2025-12-15)
+# This version has lit a firecracker under the community and attracted
+# some ire. The situation is in a state of mild flux, and more generally
+# requires further consideration to determine the correct course of
+# action. Use at your own risk.
+>=app-text/calibre-8.11.0
+
 # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (2025-12-21)
 # Fails to build against Qt 6.10, upstream repository was archived.
 # Bug #966389. Removal on 2026-01-15