diff --git a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
index 4858b585ae..dcec4dbc6b 100644
--- a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
+++ b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
@@ -1387,15 +1387,6 @@ class StoreOpenBooksStore(StoreBase):
     drm_free_only = True
     headquarters = 'US'
 
-class StoreOpenLibraryStore(StoreBase):
-    name = 'Open Library'
-    description = u'One web page for every book ever published. The goal is to be a true online library. Over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.'
-    actual_plugin = 'calibre.gui2.store.stores.open_library_plugin:OpenLibraryStore'
-
-    drm_free_only = True
-    headquarters = 'US'
-    formats = ['DAISY', 'DJVU', 'EPUB', 'MOBI', 'PDF', 'TXT']
-
 class StoreOReillyStore(StoreBase):
     name = 'OReilly'
     description = u'Programming and tech ebooks from OReilly.'
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/open_library_plugin.py b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/open_library_plugin.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b95f1bf930..0000000000
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/open_library_plugin.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import, print_function)
-
-__license__ = 'GPL 3'
-__copyright__ = '2011, John Schember <john@nachtimwald.com>'
-__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
-
-import urllib2
-from contextlib import closing
-
-from lxml import html
-
-from PyQt4.Qt import QUrl
-
-from calibre import browser, url_slash_cleaner
-from calibre.gui2 import open_url
-from calibre.gui2.store import StorePlugin
-from calibre.gui2.store.basic_config import BasicStoreConfig
-from calibre.gui2.store.search_result import SearchResult
-from calibre.gui2.store.web_store_dialog import WebStoreDialog
-
-class OpenLibraryStore(BasicStoreConfig, StorePlugin):
-    
-    def open(self, parent=None, detail_item=None, external=False):
-        url = 'http://openlibrary.org/'
-
-        if external or self.config.get('open_external', False):
-            if detail_item:
-                url = url + detail_item
-            open_url(QUrl(url_slash_cleaner(url)))
-        else:
-            detail_url = None
-            if detail_item:
-                detail_url = url + detail_item
-            d = WebStoreDialog(self.gui, url, parent, detail_url)
-            d.setWindowTitle(self.name)
-            d.set_tags(self.config.get('tags', ''))
-            d.exec_()
-
-    def search(self, query, max_results=10, timeout=60):
-        url = 'http://openlibrary.org/search?q=' + urllib2.quote(query) + '&has_fulltext=true'
-        
-        br = browser()
-        
-        counter = max_results
-        with closing(br.open(url, timeout=timeout)) as f:
-            doc = html.fromstring(f.read())
-            for data in doc.xpath('//div[@id="searchResults"]/ul[@id="siteSearch"]/li'):
-                if counter <= 0:
-                    break
-                
-                # Don't include books that don't have downloadable files.
-                if not data.xpath('boolean(./span[@class="actions"]//span[@class="label" and contains(text(), "Read")])'):
-                    continue
-                id = ''.join(data.xpath('./span[@class="bookcover"]/a/@href'))
-                if not id:
-                    continue
-                cover_url = ''.join(data.xpath('./span[@class="bookcover"]/a/img/@src'))
-                
-                title = ''.join(data.xpath('.//h3[@class="booktitle"]/a[@class="results"]/text()'))
-                author = ''.join(data.xpath('.//span[@class="bookauthor"]/a/text()'))
-                price = '$0.00'
-                
-                counter -= 1
-                
-                s = SearchResult()
-                s.cover_url = cover_url
-                s.title = title.strip()
-                s.author = author.strip()
-                s.price = price
-                s.detail_item = id.strip()
-                s.drm = SearchResult.DRM_UNLOCKED
-                
-                yield s
-
-    def get_details(self, search_result, timeout):
-        url = 'http://openlibrary.org/'
-        
-        br = browser()
-        with closing(br.open(url_slash_cleaner(url + search_result.detail_item), timeout=timeout)) as nf:
-            idata = html.fromstring(nf.read())
-            search_result.formats = ', '.join(list(set(idata.xpath('//a[contains(@title, "Download")]/text()'))))
-        return True