Stay ConnectedBoring Books for Bedtime is a weekly, ad-free, AI-free sleep podcast in which we calmly, quietly read something rather boring to silence the brain chatter keeping you awake. Think Aristotle, Thoreau, and whoever wrote the 1897 Sears Catalog—mostly nonfiction, mostly old, a perfect balance of vaguely-but-not-too interesting.
If you’re on Team Sleepless, lie back, take a deep breath, and let us read you to rest.
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Let's sail to sleep with more about the history of maritime exploration, including Vikings in North America, the Chinese invention of the compass, Arabic navigation tools, and the rise of the Portuguese. Dreams ahoy!
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Read "The Book of the Ocean" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56311
Music: "Ocean Tapping," by PC III, licensed under CC BY
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Let's return to this relaxing classic and learn more sleepy advice about paying visits, leaving cards, proper wedding invitations, and how to sit in a chair. Dear listeners, it seems your reader had no idea.
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Read "Etiquette" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14314
Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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This week, we conclude a relaxing Greek classic about getting the best from your cavalry horse, including what to wear, and then fall asleep to the riveting legalese of Project Gutenberg's usage license for all these free eBooks I share with you. The horse stuff is more fun, to be honest.
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Read "On Horsemanship" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1176
Music: "earth 2 earth," by PC III, licensed under CC BY
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Let's continue to wend our relaxing way through a fundamental text of science and explore how elements combine and de-combine with that wonderful substance, water. Truly the solution for sleep!
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Read "The Principles of Chemistry" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51326
Music: "Exit Exit," by PCIII, licensed under CC BY
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Let's return to this sleepily detailed guide to rail journeys in 1860, and learn what to wear, the importance of travel insurance, and how to steal a horse to get to the station on time. Handy indeed!
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Read "The Railway Traveller's Handy Book" at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/railwaytraveller00unse
Music: "Healing," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Tonight, let's celebrate the sleepy splendors of spring and go shopping for the latest in floral novelties offered by Gardiner & Co. in their seed annual. Apparently, in 1890, Japanese delights were all the rage.
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Music: "Changing Colours," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Tonight, while your reader recovers from a snuffly illness, let's rewind to 2021 and fall into the rhythm of sleep with a book that works hard to put meaning into music, but mostly just manages to make it boring. So…kind of perfect, really.
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Read "How to Listen to Music" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17474
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Let's celebrate Earth Day with more from Muir's poetic ode to the spectacular natural wonders of North America. This time, we complete our relaxing tour of Yellowstone and head to beautiful Yosemite, the jewel of the Sierras. Truly the stuff of dreams.
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Read "Our National Parks" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60929
Music: "Watching Whale on the Moon," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Let's return to the relaxing world of dairy products and learn more about the design of a good curing room, dividing profits among your producers, and what makes a great cheese. Hint: it's definitely not skim milk!
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Read "Handbook on Cheese Making" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70813
Music: "Chasing Colours," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Let's return to this sleep-inducing exploration, and speculation, about the Red Planet. This time, we learn about seasonal fluctuations of the poles and how they do or don't mirror our own. Which is exactly as interesting as it sounds.
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Read "Mars and Its Canals" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47015
Music: "Dream Colours," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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