diff --git a/candle-datasets/Cargo.toml b/candle-datasets/Cargo.toml
index 32c8b3b1..f4472a08 100644
--- a/candle-datasets/Cargo.toml
+++ b/candle-datasets/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ categories.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
 readme = "README.md"
 
-[lib]
-crate-type=["dylib"]
-
 [dependencies]
 byteorder = { workspace = true }
 candle = { path = "../candle-core", version = "0.2.0", package = "candle-core" }
@@ -22,5 +19,5 @@ memmap2 = { workspace = true }
 tokenizers = { workspace = true, features = ["onig"] }
 rand = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
-parquet = { version = "45.0.0"}
+parquet = { workspace = true}
 image = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/candle-datasets/src/hub.rs b/candle-datasets/src/hub.rs
index ae40bc57..b135e148 100644
--- a/candle-datasets/src/hub.rs
+++ b/candle-datasets/src/hub.rs
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ pub fn from_hub(api: &Api, dataset_id: String) -> Result<Vec<SerializedFileReade
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
+    use parquet::file::reader::FileReader;
 
     #[test]
     fn test_dataset() {
@@ -67,28 +68,6 @@ mod tests {
         )
         .unwrap();
         assert_eq!(files.len(), 1);
-
-        let mut rows = files.into_iter().flat_map(|r| r.into_iter());
-
-        let row = rows.next().unwrap().unwrap();
-        let mut col_iter = row.get_column_iter();
-
-        // First element is an image
-        col_iter.next();
-        assert_eq!(
-            col_iter.next().unwrap().1,
-            &parquet::record::Field::Str("a drawing of a green pokemon with red eyes".to_string())
-        );
-
-        // Keep for now to showcase how to use.
-        for row in rows {
-            if let Ok(row) = row {
-                for (_idx, (_name, field)) in row.get_column_iter().enumerate() {
-                    if let parquet::record::Field::Str(value) = field {
-                        println!("Value {value:?}");
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
+        assert_eq!(files[0].metadata().file_metadata().num_rows(), 20);
     }
 }
diff --git a/candle-datasets/src/lib.rs b/candle-datasets/src/lib.rs
index cc4304c2..bfd77a99 100644
--- a/candle-datasets/src/lib.rs
+++ b/candle-datasets/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 //! Datasets & Dataloaders for Candle
 pub mod batcher;
-#[cfg(feature = "hub")]
 pub mod hub;
 pub mod nlp;
 pub mod vision;
diff --git a/candle-examples/Cargo.toml b/candle-examples/Cargo.toml
index cc1f1e4c..90165c19 100644
--- a/candle-examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/candle-examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true }
 wav = { workspace = true }
 # Necessary to disambiguate with tokio in wasm examples which are 1.28.1
 tokio = "1.29.1"
-parquet = "45.0.0"
 image.workspace = true
 
 [build-dependencies]