{"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":"Faery Lands of the South Seas, by James Hall and Charles Nordhoff, Part 5","slug":"faery-lands-of-the-south-seas-by-james-hall-and-charles-nordhoff-part-5","published_at":"2026-06-15T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351/faery-lands-of-the-south-seas-by-james-hall-and-charles-nordhoff-part-5","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351","url":"https://boringbooksforbedtime.libsyn.com/faery-lands-of-the-south-seas-by-james-hall-and-charles-nordhoff-part-5","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/boringbooksforbedtime/Faery_Lands_of_the_South_Seas_5.mp3?dest-id=810167","summary":"Let's continue our sail to sleep through a month of travel readings with more from this wonderful wander through the South Seas. This time, another interesting fellow passenger, notes on linguistics, a scary reef crossing, and…the island version of a kegger? Cheers! Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW Read \"Faery Lands of the South Seas\" by Hall & Nordhoff at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54479 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 .","meta_description":"Let's continue our sail to sleep through a month of travel readings with more from this wonderful wander through the South Seas. This time, another intere…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3108,"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/faery-lands-of-the-south-seas-by-james-hall-and-charles-nordhoff-part-5/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/faery-lands-of-the-south-seas-by-james-hall-and-charles-nordhoff-part-5.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}