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 continue with our revolutionary relaxation courtesy of Thomas Paine, who has even more thoughts on breaking up with Britain and replacement systems for the republic. Yawn!
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Read "Common Sense" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147
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Let's relax and sleep with this treatise on human rights and the failure of monarchical systems to reflect or ensure them. Plus, a lot of chatter that ties kings to…original sin? Whew!
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Read "Common Sense" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147
Music: "Dream Colours" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY
https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Let's travel the sands of sleep once again with Herodotus, and learn about flying serpents, fish migration, and the third-cheapest way to embalm your loved ones. It's balmy bookishness for your weary mind.
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Read "An Account of Egypt" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2131
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This week let's relax with information about a revolution in visual entertainment and education. We learn about the persistence of vision and some history that led us to what we today call "movies."
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Read "Moving Pictures" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67972
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This week, while your reader tussles with a certain virus, let's revisit a perfectly sleepy combo of ponderous Victorian introduction and ancient Greek philosophy, freshly remastered for your relaxation pleasure.
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Read "The Politics" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6762
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This week, while your reader is laid up with a certain virus, let's revisit one of my favorite sleepy science reads. Enjoy this remastered intro to a brand new branch of study (in 1899), bacteriology!
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Read "Bacteria" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48793
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Let's sail to sleep with more from this lovely work about the seas. This time, we learn the rigging of a schooner, praise the prowess of Pacific Islanders, and head to Iceland with Vikings.
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Read "The Book of the Ocean" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56311
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Let's relax with more sleepy science from a woman so talented that the word "scientist" was coined to describe her. This time, we learn about all the forces holding us together.
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Read "On Molecular & Microscopic Science" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55886
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Let's continue our sleepy stroll through history with the fall of Assyria, the literary bedrock of the Jews, and the birth of philosophy in Greece. Rather a lot to cram into an hour, but Wells makes it sound easy.
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Read "A Short History of the World" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35461
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Let's take a sleepy tour of the spice cabinet and the origins of allspice, chilies, cinnamon, and cloves, with a pinch of insight into faking spices with brick dust. Useful!
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Read "Spices, Their Histories" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60192
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