{"podcast":{"title":"Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep","slug":"boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351","podcast_index_feed_id":237351,"rss_url":"https://boringbooksforbedtime.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.boringbookspod.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/9/2/c/d92c87d14717af6116c3140a3186d450/_B3_New_Purple_Title_Main_July_2025.png","author":"Sharon Handy","episode_count":406,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T22:20:08.400786+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351"},"episode":{"title":"1897 Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog - Sewing Machines","slug":"1897-sears-roebuck-and-co-catalog-sewing-machines","published_at":"2026-05-25T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351/1897-sears-roebuck-and-co-catalog-sewing-machines","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351","url":"https://boringbooksforbedtime.libsyn.com/1897-sears-roebuck-and-co-catalog-sewing-machines","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/boringbooksforbedtime/1897_Sears_Catalog_Sewing_Machines.mp3?dest-id=810167","summary":"Let's celebrate our 400th (!!!) episode with more from one of your sleepiest favorites from 1897. This time, thanks to a Patreon poll, we're shopping for that most useful of newfangled devices, the sewing machine. Singer has nothing on Sears, according to Sears, especially with a three percent discount for cash. It's a bargain of boredom! Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW Music: \"Heaven Be Here,\" 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 .","meta_description":"Let's celebrate our 400th (!!!) episode with more from one of your sleepiest favorites from 1897. This time, thanks to a Patreon poll, we're shopping for…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3505,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351/episodes/1897-sears-roebuck-and-co-catalog-sewing-machines/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351/1897-sears-roebuck-and-co-catalog-sewing-machines.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}