{"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":"Hoyle's Games Modernized, by Hoyle, Hoffmann and Bergholt, Part 1","slug":"hoyle-s-games-modernized-by-hoyle-hoffmann-and-bergholt-part-1","published_at":"2026-01-12T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351/hoyle-s-games-modernized-by-hoyle-hoffmann-and-bergholt-part-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-books-for-bedtime-readings-to-help-you-sleep-237351","url":"https://boringbooksforbedtime.libsyn.com/hoyles-games-modernized-by-hoyle-hoffmann-and-bergholt-part-1","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/boringbooksforbedtime/Hoyles_Games_Modernized_1.mp3?dest-id=810167","summary":"Let's deal ourselves some sleep with this classic instruction manual for all the games you have and haven't heard of. Tonight, the intricacies of All-Fours, Baccarat, and something called Bezique, which is so laughably complicated that I almost want to try it. Score! 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 \"Hoyle's Games Modernized\" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39445 Music: \"Boring Books for Bedtime,\" 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 .","meta_description":"Let's deal ourselves some sleep with this classic instruction manual for all the games you have and haven't heard of. Tonight, the intricacies of All-Four…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3206,"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/hoyle-s-games-modernized-by-hoyle-hoffmann-and-bergholt-part-1/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/hoyle-s-games-modernized-by-hoyle-hoffmann-and-bergholt-part-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}