i have found a solution to my silliest podcast dilemma (i.e. "there are a lot of podcasts that i'm interested in but i already have so many audiobooks and do i want to add even more to the pile, especially long-running things with continuity?")

listening to them at night, one episode per night

it's the one time they actually work better for me than audiobooks because there's a clear stopping point

using the sleep timer with an audiobook invariably has it ending right in the middle of a scene, and it's hard to go chapter by chapter because the lengths are so variable

this is what i do too fjskldf

but it does backfire on me because sometimes i get too invested and Become Awake

THAT IS A DANGER...