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 sleep through the stress of Tax Day with more from this capital classic, learn the history of money, how diamonds are dumb, and why a cow's worth of salt is…really too much salt.
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Read "The Wealth of Nations" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300
Music: "earth 2 earth," by PC III, licensed under CC BY
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Let's take a sleepy browse through this marvelous catalog, just in time for spring. Vegetables, flowers, and novelties for the garden abound from America's finest purveyor of plants.
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Browse the 1916 Burpee's Seed Catalog at the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/CAT31297360
Music: "Changing Colours," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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In this remastered episode from the wayback, let's take a relaxing trip aboard the good ship Bounty, which maybe you've heard of? It's all breadfruit and bad weather (so far). Sleep ahoy!
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Read "A Voyage to the South Sea" at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15411
Music: "Watching Whales on the Moon," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY: https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Let's return to the British Museum of the 19th century and complete our sleepy tour of birds of the world, from ducks to dodos. It's case after case of curiosities for your tired mind!
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Read "How to See the British Museum in Four Visits" at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13755
Music: "Cosmic Tingles," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY: https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Let's relax into delicious dreams with this guide to confectionery. Learn the correct stripes for stick candy, the construction of "strawberry rock," and the stages of sugar. Sweet!
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Read "Frye's Practical Candy Maker" at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37073
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Let's return to more sleepy science and ponder life on the moon, the makeup of meteorites, and the long, strange lives of comets as they wander through our universe. Spacey!
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Read "Astronomy for Young Folks" at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45112
Music: "Exit Exit," by PC III, licensed under CC BY
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Let's begin a sleepy trip through the mountains of France, in which our novice author invents a sleeping bag, buys a donkey, and answers the question, "What could go wrong?"
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Read "Travels with a Donkey" at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/535
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Let's trip back in time two years ago (!!) and relax with this newly remastered paean of praise from one transcendentalist to another. We should all be so lucky to be spoken of like this.
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Read "Excursions" at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9846
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Let's relax and sleep with more from Mrs. Post as she instructs us in the art of conversation, thinking before we speak, and avoiding unforgivable pretentiousness. Useful!
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Read "Etiquette" at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14314
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Drift to sleep with science as Darwin himself defines natural selection and the interconnectedness of all things. Also, we hear the archaic word "humble-bees," which is adorable.
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Read "The Origin of Species" at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1228
Music: "Dream Colours," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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