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 return to the relaxing wonders of science with more from a foundational work of modern chemistry. This time, we finally finish…the introduction! It's the perfect compound for sleep.
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Read "The Principles of Chemistry" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51326
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This week, let's appreciate the culinary wonders of weeds with this relaxing guide to nature's bounty by George Washington Carver. Salads have never seemed so special.
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Let's return to sleepy science with more from Charles Darwin on domestic breeding, pigeon mating, and messy definitions. What is a species anyway? It's a mystery!
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Read "On the Origin of Species" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1228
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Sink into tasteful slumber this week with the history of home decor from the Queen of The Gilded Age. Basically, "like Italy and be rich" seems to sum it up.
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Read "The Decoration of Houses" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40367
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Let's relax and sleep with more from this bucolic delight, and learn about managing our traction engine, getting out of life's inevitable ditches, and the qualities of a good grease.
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Read "Farm Engines and How to Run them" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43867
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Let's return to the sleepy sands of Egypt and finish our exploration of religious architecture, with symbolic temples, towering obelisks, and shrines that held...puppets, apparently? Who knew!
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Read "Manual of Egyptian Archaeology" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14400
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Let's return to the heavens and relax with some sleepy stardust about our solar system, learn a bit about our neighbor planets, and consider how they got here in the first place. Far out!
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Read "Astronomy for Young Folks" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45112
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Let's sense our way to sleep with a book I forgot reading from! This time we learn exercises to hone our skills as psychic parlour performers, which was a for-real thing in 1907.
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Read "Practical Mind Reading" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41358
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Let's dive back into one of your sleepy favorites, and learn about the life of the maid-of-all-work, the perfect dairy layout, and some fine advice about stable ventilation.
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Read "The Book of Household Management" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10136
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Let's relax into the natural world with two essays by Henry David Thoreau, in which we take a poetic walk by moonlight, and then contemplate the wintry depths of Walden Pond. Transcendental!
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Read "Night and Moonlight" in "Excursions" at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9846
And "Walden" here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205
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