Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep – Details, episodes & analysis

Let’s relax and sleep with more history of the British Isles from the wonderful Bede. This time, we wander through four centuries of Roman influence, build some walls, and learn about Saint Alban, who got a miraculous drink on a hill!

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Read “Ecclesiastical History of England” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38326

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Let’s continue a month of requests from our Patreon raffle winners with more about the operation of agricultural machinery. This time, some Q&A and a surprisingly excellent scientific explanation of the states of matter. Steamy!

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Read “Farm Engines and How To Run Them” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43867

Music: "Exit Exit,” by PC III, licensed under CC BY

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This week, let’s relax with the intricacies of car maintenance as we learn the proper care and operation of a 1912 Model T Ford. Why, it’s so simple, anyone can fill the dope caps and grind the valves. Ford thinks you can, anyway, and isn’t that a bit cheering?

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In this remastered episode, let's relax with practical advice about modern plumbing systems. And by modern, I mean 19th century. Indoor plumbing has come a long way, thank goodness!

***Boring Books for Bedtime will be on break through September, so enjoy some remastered episodes from the wayback. We'll return with new readings for sleep in October!***

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Read “Bad Drains and How to Test Them” here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60721

Music: "Ocean Tapping,” by PC III, licensed under CC-BY

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In this newly remastered episode, let's rest beneath the trees with one of the first environmentalists. His relaxed rambles from Indiana to Florida contain quiet caves, sleepy groves, and a rucksack full of rhapsodies about nature's beauties.

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Read “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf” here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60749e

Music: "Cosmic Tingles,” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC-BY: https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

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In this newly remastered episode, rule over sleep with the pithy prose of Machiavelli. But first, a very long introduction to our author and the twisted papal politics of 15th century Italy. Yawn!

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Read “The Prince” here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232

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In this newly remastered episode, let’s journey back to New York City in the early 1900s with one of America’s great writers and his dreamy portrait of the city that never sleeps. Fingers crossed you will!

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Read “The Color of a Great City” here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61043

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 this manual of manners, and learn how to pay a check, walk down a theater aisle, and navigate the social complexities of the opera box. Also, just…be nice. Good advice!

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Read “Etiquette” here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14314

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Let’s sink into the fields of sleep with more from this lovely and informative book on the varied beauty of wildflowers. A few may smell of corpses, but they’re no less wonders of nature!

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Read “Wild Flowers Worth Knowing” here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8866

Music: "Changing Colours,” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC-BY: https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

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Let’s relax with a much-requested book and drift off as Mr. Smith defines the division of labor, details the connections of commerce, and takes a swipe at the lie of meritocracy. Economical!

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Read “The Wealth of Nations” here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300

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