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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ecclesiastical History of England, by the Venerable Bede, Part 2 | 26 Aug 2024 | 00:50:40 | |
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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| Farm Engines and How To Run Them, Part 6 | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:56:51 | |
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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| 1912 Ford Motor Cars Model T Instruction Manual, Part 1 | 17 Jun 2024 | 00:54:17 | |
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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| Relaxation Rewind! Bad Drains and How to Test Them, Part 1 | 26 Sep 2022 | 00:56:57 | |
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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| Relaxation Rewind! A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir, Part 1 | 19 Sep 2022 | 00:54:22 | |
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. ***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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| Relaxation Rewind! The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli, Part 1 | 12 Sep 2022 | 00:56:41 | |
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! ***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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| Relaxation Rewind! The Color of a Great City, by Theodore Dreiser, Part 1 | 05 Sep 2022 | 00:49:51 | |
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! ***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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| Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 3 | 29 Aug 2022 | 00:50:55 | |
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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| Wild Flowers Worth Knowing, by Neltje Blanchan, Part 2 | 22 Aug 2022 | 00:50:11 | |
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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| The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 1 | 15 Aug 2022 | 00:53:52 | |
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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| The South American Tour, by Annie S. Peck, Part 1, REMASTERED | 08 Aug 2022 | 00:51:25 | |
Let’s rewind to 2020 with a remastered version of this marvelous travelogue from an equally marvelous woman. Experience all the dreamy wonders of South America for a mere $1,000. Or more if you’re fancy and like magazines and air conditioning.
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| Cottages, or HInts on Economical Building, Part 1 | 01 Aug 2022 | 00:49:33 | |
For our 200th episode, let’s get cozy and relax with advice on planning the perfect cottage. Which apparently includes a library, billiard room, and nursery. Sleepy simplicity!
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| The Book of Household Management, by Isabella Beeton, Part 8 - Cookery | 25 Jul 2022 | 00:55:34 | |
Let’s return to a sleepy favorite and relax with Mrs. Beeton's thoughts on a cook’s duties, French vocabulary, and asparagus. Also, we learn to make Bread Soup. Yay?
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| The Book of the Ocean, by Ernest Ingersoll, Part 4 | 10 Jun 2024 | 00:45:14 | |
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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| Astronomy for Young Folks, by Isabel Martin Lewis, Part 6 | 18 Jul 2022 | 00:48:15 | |
Let’s celebrate the JWST with more from one of my favorite sleepy books. We hear about Jupiter’s moons, dissect Saturn’s rings, and consider whether the Moon could harbor life. Dreamy!
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| Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, Part 2 | 11 Jul 2022 | 00:56:50 | |
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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| Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, Part 1 | 04 Jul 2022 | 00:54:18 | |
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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| An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus, Part 2 | 27 Jun 2022 | 00:46:45 | |
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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| Moving Pictures - How They Are Made and Worked, Part 1 | 20 Jun 2022 | 00:49:18 | |
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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| REWIND! The Politics, by Aristotle, Part 1 (Remastered) | 13 Jun 2022 | 00:48:19 | |
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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| REWIND! Bacteria, by Sir George Newman, Part 1 (Remastered) | 06 Jun 2022 | 00:50:29 | |
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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| The Book of the Ocean, by Ernest Ingersoll, Part 3 | 30 May 2022 | 00:48:05 | |
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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| On Molecular and Microscopic Science, by Mary Somerville, Part 2 | 23 May 2022 | 00:48:16 | |
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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| A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 5 | 16 May 2022 | 00:52:16 | |
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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| Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 6 | 03 Jun 2024 | 00:54:11 | |
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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| Spices, Their Histories, Part 1 | 09 May 2022 | 00:48:43 | |
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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| Bird Biographies, by Alice E. Ball, Part 3 | 02 May 2022 | 00:57:06 | |
Let’s fly off to relaxation with more from this lovely book about our feathered friends. This time, we learn about the birds of early spring, and marvel at the sleepy songs of the sparrows.
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| Our National Parks, by John Muir, Part 2 | 25 Apr 2022 | 00:51:02 | |
Let’s conclude a month of relaxing travels with more from this tour of America’s national parks, sleepily agog at the Grand Canyon and the weird grandeur of Yellowstone.
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| Faery Lands of the South Seas, by Hall and Nordhoff, Part 1 | 18 Apr 2022 | 00:46:16 | |
Our month of relaxing voyages continues as we head to the distant South Seas. We set off first for sleepy Tahiti and meet a man with little history but a lot of chickens. And profuse apologies if I sound a bit stuffy. I am!
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| Pictures From Italy, by Charles Dickens, Part 2 | 11 Apr 2022 | 00:50:59 | |
Let’s continue our month of relaxing voyages and rejoin Charles Dickens on his sleepy sojourn to Italy. On the way, we visit a dungeon, pass a madhouse, and end up bemused in Genoa.
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| Mount Everest - The Reconnaissance of 1921, Part 2 | 04 Apr 2022 | 00:46:20 | |
Let’s kick off a month of relaxing travelogues with more from the first attempt to map the world’s tallest mountain. This time, we take the road from India to Tibet, marvel at flowered forests, and consider the leech.
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| Ten Acres Enough, by Edmund Morris, Part 1 | 28 Mar 2022 | 00:51:32 | |
Let’s throw off the stress of city cares and head out into the country for a simpler life, which apparently was as much a desire back in the 1850s as it is today.
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| The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russell, Part 1 | 21 Mar 2022 | 00:50:04 | |
Let’s relax with some sleepy physics, as Bertrand Russell unravels the Theory of Relativity. Drugging people and putting them in balloons is somewhat mentioned. Science!
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| 1897 Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog, Grocery Department | 14 Mar 2022 | 00:49:01 | |
Let's grab a basket and take a relaxing stroll through the Grocery Department of the Amazon of its day. Coffee beans, cherry phosphate, canned gooseberries—Sears had it all.
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| The Woman and The Car, by Dorothy Levitt, Part 2 | 07 Mar 2022 | 00:52:15 | |
Let’s motor to sleep with more from this wonderful manual for the lady driver, written by race car and speedboat champion Dorothy Levitt. Mechanics and manners are all you need!
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| On Horsemanship, by Xenophon, Part 2, and Project Gutenberg License | 27 May 2024 | 00:56:55 | |
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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| The Poetics of Aristotle, Part 2 | 28 Feb 2022 | 00:55:40 | |
Let’s return to the earliest known work on Western dramatic theory and learn about character, verbs, and why Homer is always right. Also “women can also be good,” which is…something? No worries, it gets a lot better after that.
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| The Principles of Chemistry, by Dmitry Mendeleev, Part 3 | 21 Feb 2022 | 00:40:30 | |
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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| Natures Garden for Victory and Peace, by George Washington Carver | 14 Feb 2022 | 00:50:38 | |
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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| On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, Part 3 | 07 Feb 2022 | 00:48:52 | |
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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| The Decoration of Houses, by Edith Wharton, Part 1 | 31 Jan 2022 | 00:51:55 | |
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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| Farm Engines and How to Run Them, Part 4 | 28 Jan 2022 | 00:54:26 | |
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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| Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to Antiquities, Part 4 | 17 Jan 2022 | 00:42:32 | |
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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| Astronomy for Young Folks, by Isabel Martin Lewis, Part 5 | 10 Jan 2022 | 00:47:22 | |
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! Support us here: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW
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| Practical Mind Reading, by William Walker Atkinson, Part 2 | 03 Jan 2022 | 00:56:26 | |
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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| The Book of Household Management, by Isabella Beeton, Part 7 (Maids, Dairy & Stable) | 27 Dec 2021 | 00:47:09 | |
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. Support us and keep us 100% listener supported here: Patreon: www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me A Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW Read "The Book of Household Management” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10136 Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/ If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, boringbookspod.com. | |||
| The Principles of Chemistry, by Dmitri Mendeleev, Part 5 | 20 May 2024 | 00:49:46 | |
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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| Night and Moonlight & Walden Pond in Winter, by Henry David Thoreau | 20 Dec 2021 | 00:55:07 | |
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! December Raffle! Support us on Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee by December 24th to be entered to win a three-month subscription (that's three free audiobooks!) from Libro.fm. Yay! Patreon: www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me A Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW Read "Night and Moonlight” in “Excursions” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9846 And “Walden” here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205 Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/ If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, boringbookspod.com. | |||
| The Hive and the Honey Bee, by LL Langstroth, Part 2 | 13 Dec 2021 | 00:44:37 | |
Let’s once again be lulled to sleep by the hum of beautiful, busy bees, learn all about the workings of the queen bee, and hear every permutation of the word “fecund” possible. December Raffle! Support us on Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee by December 24th to be entered to win a three-month subscription (that's three free audiobooks!) from Libro.fm. Yay! Patreon: www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me A Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW Read "The Hive and the Honey Bee” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24583 Music: "earth 2 earth" by PC III, licensed under CC BY If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, boringbookspod.com. | |||
| The History of Bread, by John Ashton, Part 3 | 06 Dec 2021 | 00:43:00 | |
Let’s return to the relaxing world of bread and fall asleep to European peasant loaves, the origin of the croissant, and the heraldry of London’s bread guilds. Delish! Also, I announce our December raffle for supporters! Support us on Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee by December 24th to be entered to win a three-month subscription (that's three free audiobooks!) from Libro.fm. Yay! Patreon: www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me A Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW Read "The History of Bread” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53219 Music: "Peace" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, boringbookspod.com. | |||