diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6312608..2a9609d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name = "scribble_to_epub"
 dependencies = [
     'beautifulsoup4~=4.13.4',
-    'requests',
+    'easy-requests~=0.0.0',
     'EbookLib~=0.19',
     'arrow~=1.3.0',
     'ftfy~=6.3.1',
diff --git a/scribble_to_epub/scribblehub.py b/scribble_to_epub/scribblehub.py
index 61dc9b9..ffdb499 100644
--- a/scribble_to_epub/scribblehub.py
+++ b/scribble_to_epub/scribblehub.py
@@ -14,9 +14,7 @@ import math
 from codecs import encode
 from hashlib import sha1
 from pathlib import Path
-import requests
 import uuid
-import time
 from python_requests import Connection, set_cache_directory
 
 from . import __name__