Stories Behind the Hymns Devotional for reMarkable Paper Pure | 40 Readings (Digital PDF)

A forty-reading devotional on the hymns you already know: the true story behind each one, the Scripture it grew from, the full text, and a page for your own response. This is the reMarkable Paper Pure edition, in black and white.

WHAT IT IS
Amazing Grace was written for a sermon John Newton preached on New Year's Day 1773. It Is Well With My Soul is said to have been written by a man crossing the Atlantic, over the place where his four daughters had drowned. Most of the hymns we sing without thinking were written by someone in the hardest moment of their life, and a few rose from whole communities, among them men and women held in slavery. This book puts you in the room with them: forty readings, each one the true story of a hymn, the Scripture it grew from, the hymn itself, and a page for your own response.

WHAT'S INSIDE
- Forty readings on thirty-nine hymns, arranged in nine themed sections, so it works as a forty-day devotional or a book to open anywhere.
- Every story was checked against documented sources (hymnary.org, the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology and others, credited in the book). Where a popular legend is not supported, the book says so.
- The complete text of every hymn in an alphabetical appendix, with an A to Z directory linking readings and lyrics both ways.
- A Your Response page after each reading, with writing lines for the pen.
- Hymns include Amazing Grace, It Is Well With My Soul, Be Thou My Vision, Come Thou Fount, Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Give Me Jesus and Steal Away.

MADE FOR THE REMARKABLE PAPER PURE
10.3-inch black-and-white e-ink, portrait. Built to the Paper Pure's page, with every tap target kept clear of the toolbar's corners so nothing you tap is hidden under the menu. Black-and-white edition, with every tap target kept clear of the toolbar's corners.

WHAT'S IN THE DOWNLOAD
- The Stories Behind the Hymns for reMarkable Paper Pure (PDF), 182 pages
- Start Here: a one-page guide to loading it on your device
- The licence (personal use)

LOADING IT
Copy the PDF to your reMarkable with the desktop or mobile app (My files > Import). Open it, tap the page, and the links work. No conversion, no settings to change.

WHY A DEDICATED EDITION
A PDF made for a phone or a printer does not fit an e-ink page. Either the type is too small or the navigation lands under the device's own menus. Each Dakin edition is laid out for one page size, with the toolbar clearance and tap zones measured on the actual device, and every link checked before release.

OTHER DEVICES
This listing is the reMarkable Paper Pure edition. Editions for the reMarkable Paper Pro, reMarkable Paper Pro Move, Kindle Scribe and iPad & universal tablets are separate listings in the shop, and there is a discounted bundle if you read on more than one device.

HOW IT WAS MADE
Each edition starts with research and decisions made by Dakin Publishing: what the book is for, how it should differ from what is already out there, what goes in and what stays out, and how it should look and read on each device. We revisit those choices until the edition has its own identity, and check every link before release. AI is a tool in that work, helping with research, the layout software and editorial drafting, and we check what it produces; the Scripture and hymn lyrics are not AI-written.

ABOUT DAKIN PUBLISHING
Dakin Publishing makes quiet, carefully built digital publications: Bibles, devotionals, journals and practical tools, designed in the tradition of good bookmaking rather than modern software. We believe technology should serve reading, writing and reflection, not compete with them. So each title is made for the screen it will be read on, with nothing on the page that does not help the reader, and is meant to be used for years. It began with a reMarkable and a search for a Bible that was modern, well made and easy to move around in. Every claim on this page was checked against the file you download.