diff --git a/crates/owlry/Cargo.toml b/crates/owlry/Cargo.toml
index a88033d..682efbb 100644
--- a/crates/owlry/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/owlry/Cargo.toml
@@ -60,8 +60,11 @@ signal-hook = "0.3"
 expr-solver-lib = "1"
 reqwest = { version = "0.13", default-features = false, features = ["native-tls", "json", "blocking"] }
 
-# Optional providers (gated by cargo features below)
-rusqlite = { version = "0.39", features = ["bundled"], optional = true }
+# Optional providers (gated by cargo features below).
+# Features declared on the bookmarks feature row, not inline here, so the
+# `bundled` flag propagates cleanly to libsqlite3-sys regardless of how
+# downstream consumers compose features.
+rusqlite = { version = "0.39", optional = true }
 
 # Async oneshot channel (background thread -> main loop)
 futures-channel = "0.3"
@@ -81,7 +84,7 @@ dev-logging = []
 
 # Optional providers (compiled in when enabled).
 # The AUR PKGBUILD builds with --features "full" to ship everything.
-bookmarks = ["dep:rusqlite"]
+bookmarks = ["dep:rusqlite", "rusqlite/bundled"]
 clipboard = []
 emoji = []
 filesearch = []