Jul 23, 2026 · 58 min · 9 segments
Welcome to *Textbook Sleep*, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid. To help you sleep, we read aloud the boring texts that once put you to sleep in school. Like Edward Gibbon’s *The History of the Decline…
To help you sleep, we read aloud the boring text that once put you to sleep in school.
Like Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, aka The Decline and Fall of Your Insomnia, this is my second reading from it.
The entire history is approximately 1.5 million words long, and it would take me some 200 hours to read it all aloud.
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