Let’s saw our way to sleep with more from this helpful guide for the novice woodworker. This time, we build our own work bench, improvise a vise, and discover that “measure twice, cut once” is always good advice.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported! Patreon: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod">https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod</a> Buy Me a Coffee: <a href= "https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW</a>   Read “Woodworking for Beginners” at Project Gutenberg: <a href= "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43604">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43604</a>   Music: "Peace” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, <a href= "https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com">https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com</a>   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, <a href= "https://www.boringbookspod.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">http://www.boringbookspod.com</a>.

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Let’s saw our way to sleep with more from this helpful guide for the novice woodworker. This time, we build our own work bench, improvise a vise, and discover that “measure twice, cut once” is always good advice.   Help us stay ad-free and...

Woodworking for Beginners, by Charles G. Wheeler, Part 3

Let’s relax with more from this wonderful guide to studying art in Europe. This time, where to shop in London, the best boarding houses, and then we’re off to Paris with some genteel commentary about being a woman in a man’s artsy world. Take up your brushes, ladies!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported! Patreon: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod">https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod</a> Buy Me a Coffee: <a href= "https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW</a>   Read “Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply” at the Internet Archive: <a href= "https://archive.org/details/studyingartabroa00nier">https://archive.org/details/studyingartabroa00nier</a>   Music: "Peace” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, <a href= "https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com">https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com</a>   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, <a href= "https://www.boringbookspod.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">http://www.boringbookspod.com</a>.

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Let’s relax with more from this wonderful guide to studying art in Europe. This time, where to shop in London, the best boarding houses, and then we’re off to Paris with some genteel commentary about being a woman in a man’s artsy world. Take up...

Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply, by Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Part 2

Let’s, uh, improve our health with this compendium of questionable herbal advice from 1650. But first, the kind of sleep-inducing, self-congratulatory introduction in which only a 17th-century apothecary can excel. Delightful!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported! Patreon: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod">https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod</a> Buy Me a Coffee: <a href= "https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW</a>   Read “The Complete Herbal” at Project Gutenberg here: <a href= "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49513">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49513</a>   Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, <a href= "https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com">https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com</a>   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, <a href= "https://www.boringbookspod.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">http://www.boringbookspod.com</a>.

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Let’s, uh, improve our health with this compendium of questionable herbal advice from 1650. But first, the kind of sleep-inducing, self-congratulatory introduction in which only a 17th-century apothecary can excel. Delightful!   Help us stay...

The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged, by Nicholas Culpeper, Part 1

Let’s hop in our sleepy wayback machine and relax with more from this remarkable little history of everything. This time, the Roman Empire, Hannibal, and the rise of the emperors. Quiescamus!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported! Patreon: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod">https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod</a> Buy Me a Coffee: <a href= "https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW</a>   Read “A Short History of the World” at Project Gutenberg here: <a href= "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35461">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35461</a>   Music: "Cosmic Tingles” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, <a href= "https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com">https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com</a>   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, <a href= "https://www.boringbookspod.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">http://www.boringbookspod.com</a>.

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Let’s hop in our sleepy wayback machine and relax with more from this remarkable little history of everything. This time, the Roman Empire, Hannibal, and the rise of the emperors. Quiescamus!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported!...

A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 8

Let’s journey to sleep with Henry David Thoreau as he explores the back of beyond in Maine, ponders the fate of forests, visits some barely-there towns, and…gets accosted by politicians? Talk about timing!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported! Patreon: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod">https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod</a> Buy Me a Coffee: <a href= "https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW</a>   Read “The Maine Woods” at Project Gutenberg here: <a href= "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42500">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42500</a>   Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, <a href= "https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com">https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com</a>   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, <a href= "https://www.boringbookspod.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">http://www.boringbookspod.com</a>.

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Let’s journey to sleep with Henry David Thoreau as he explores the back of beyond in Maine, ponders the fate of forests, visits some barely-there towns, and…gets accosted by politicians? Talk about timing!   Help us stay ad-free and 100%...

The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, Part 1

Boring Books for Bedtime is a weekly 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 blend of vaguely-but-not-too interesting.

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