{"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":"Farm Engines and How to Run Them, by James H. Stephenson, Part 8","slug":"farm-engines-and-how-to-run-them-by-james-h-stephenson-part-8","published_at":"2026-04-27T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351/farm-engines-and-how-to-run-them-by-james-h-stephenson-part-8","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351","url":"https://boringbooksforbedtime.libsyn.com/farm-engines-and-how-to-run-them-by-james-h-stephenson-part-8","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/boringbooksforbedtime/Farm_Engines_8.mp3?dest-id=810167","summary":"Let's finish our theme month of \"Long-time Favorites\" with more from this surprisingly relaxing guide to running powered farm machinery. This time, starting a gas engine, how to hook up a newfangled gadget called a battery, and the many parts of your threshing machine. To the fields! 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 \"Farm Engines & How to Run Them\" by James H. Stephenson at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43867 Music: \"Exit Exit,\" 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 finish our theme month of \"Long-time Favorites\" with more from this surprisingly relaxing guide to running powered farm machinery. This time, starti…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3163,"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/farm-engines-and-how-to-run-them-by-james-h-stephenson-part-8/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/farm-engines-and-how-to-run-them-by-james-h-stephenson-part-8.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}