{"id":1427,"date":"2025-01-20T23:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2025-01-20T23:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:33:57","slug":"use-audiobooks-to-cope-with-insomnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"Use audiobooks to cope with insomnia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my experience, listening to audiobooks is surprisingly effective at helping me fall asleep. Even if I wake up in the middle of the night and other methods fail, audiobooks consistently work for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ways to obtain free audios of books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Download audiobooks onto a smartphone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Download from LibriVox that offers recorded audios of books that are already in the public domain\n<ul>\n<li>Apps such as &#8216;Free Classic Audiobooks&#8217; serve as frontends for LibriVox audiobooks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use the Assistive Reader in Amazon Kindle App for books with Enhanced Typesetting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some books are available on YouTube. Use Youtube2MP3 or similar tools to generate the audio files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>The effect diminishes with repeated listening of the same book.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LibriVox recordings can be annoying because of the disclaimers (see pt #1).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kindle uses text-to-speech, so the voice is a bit robotic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, listening to audiobooks is surprisingly","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijourn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}