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Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

By: Sharon Handy
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 Boring 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.Copyright Sharon Handy, All Rights Reserved Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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  • Over Fen and Wold, by John James Hissey, Part 1

    Over Fen and Wold, by John James Hissey, Part 1
    Sep 22 2025

    Let’s relax with a lovely listener recommendation that takes us, and our authors, on a tour of little-regarded Lincolnshire. This time, the lure of new places, the charm of old maps, the evolution of place names, and confirmation that wishing to escape urban “uglification” to calm, green country is nothing new at all.

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    Read “Over Fen and Wold” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65900

    Music: "Calling to Other Worlds,” 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, https://www.boringbookspod.com.
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    53 mins
  • On Molecular and Microscopic Science, by Mary Somerville, Part 3

    On Molecular and Microscopic Science, by Mary Somerville, Part 3
    Sep 15 2025

    Let’s sleep scientifically this week, with more from a woman of such deep and broad accomplishment that the word "scientist" had to be coined to describe her. This time, colors, molecular heat conduction, what constitutes smells, and why gold is really blue.

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    Read “On Molecular and Microscopic Science” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55886

    Music: "Cosmic Tingles,” 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, https://www.boringbookspod.com.
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    51 mins
  • The Book of the Ocean, by Ernest Ingersoll, Part 5

    The Book of the Ocean, by Ernest Ingersoll, Part 5
    Sep 8 2025

    Let’s sail the seas of sleep with more from this volume about the history of our oceans. This time, the Age of Exploration south and north, the mythical Isles of the Blessed, Magellan’s remarkable voyage, and how America really got its name. Hint, it was easy to pronounce.

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    Read “The Book of the Ocean” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56311

    Music: "Ocean Tapping,” 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, https://www.boringbookspod.com.
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    55 mins
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