Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly.

And off we go.

Before we begin tonight's reading, I'd like to make a few announcements that I've rather foolishly been putting at the end of the podcast, when hopefully you're no longer awake.

First, I'd like to give a special shout at a thanks to Tara, the latest member of our Patreon family.

Tara, thank you so much for your support of this podcast.

It helps make it possible, and it's much appreciated.

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Finally, if you're ever interested in reading one of these works for yourself,

you'll always find a link to a free e-book version from Project Gutenberg in the show description.

Now let's get to the reading.

This evening we're reading something a little less philosophical than some of our more recent works, but no less boring.

Bad drains and how to test them with notes on the ventilation of sewers, drains, and sanitary fittings,

and the

grains and the origin and transmission of zymotic disease

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