Lectio divina journal for reMarkable and Kindle Scribe: the Douay-Rheims text on the page, and room for the pen

ARLing s. r. o. · 17 September 2026

What is on the page each day

The morning page begins with the Our Father, then the Psalm and the Gospel passage in full, then the four steps of lectio divina in the order Guigo II set down in The Ladder of Monks: lectio, meditatio, oratio, contemplatio. Lectio has no lines, Meditatio has 3 lines, Oratio fills the rest of the page with lines 8 mm apart and Contemplatio has no lines. Beside the reading is a 39 mm margin for notes with the pen.

The evening page is an examen with three questions of our own and lines under each: what am I thankful for today, where did I meet God and where did I turn away, what do I want to do differently tomorrow. It is a short editorial form of the examination of conscience Saint Ignatius of Loyola describes in the Spiritual Exercises, not an official text.

Psalms carry both numbers, for example Psalm 23 (22): the Hebrew number first, the Douay-Rheims and Vulgate number in brackets; from Psalm 10 to 147 they usually differ by one. Book 1 covers Psalms 1 to 31 in the Hebrew numbering, with Psalm 18 over two days and Psalms 9 and 10 on one day because the Vulgate counts them as one, and Matthew 1 to 12.

The days are numbered 1 to 31, with no year and no weekday and a line for your own date on each morning page. Days 7, 14, 21 and 28 are written for Sunday, the Lord's Day, each with a page for the week, and a fifth week page closes days 29 to 31; start on a Monday and the Sunday pages fall on real Sundays.

Where the words come from

The Scripture text is the Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749 to 1752), American edition of 1899, which is in the public domain. The book follows the digital edition of eBible.org, ID engDRA; only the markup is removed, and the annotations of the printed edition are not included. Psalm and verse numbers follow the Vulgate.

That digital edition has obvious transcription errors, and Book 1 corrects 12 of them, for example Manesses for Manasses in Matthew 1:10, but only where two other transcriptions of the same printed edition, drbo.org and Project Gutenberg ebook 1581, agree on a different reading. The list of corrections is on the last page of the book. Of the 828 verses in Book 1, after the corrections 652 are identical with the Gutenberg transcription, 99 differ only in punctuation and 76 differ in wording without an obvious error; those 76 are left as they are.

The framework text, that is the headings, instructions and questions, is editorial text of ARLing prepared with AI assistance and approved by the publisher, and the typesetting is done by our own program.

Three files, and the links measured in them

Book 1 is three PDF files of 213 pages each: an e-ink file with a 157 x 210 mm page and no page numbers, and A4 and US Letter files that centre the same 139 x 194 mm page block on the sheet and add a page number, so the pages, their order and the links are identical in all three. One day is 5 to 10 pages; the smallest type in the file is 10 pt and the reading text is 13 pt.

The check script counts 592 internal links and 71 link targets in the e-ink PDF, 0 dead links and 0 links leaving the document. The contents page carries 36 links, the Day 1 morning page 4 and its evening page 3. These are ordinary links in HTML, and Chrome keeps them when it prints to PDF, as Link annotations with a destination inside the same file, which is why they travel with the file to the tablet.

The navigation buttons sit in a centred bar at the bottom of each page, measured in the e-ink PDF at least 29 mm from the left and right edges and 15 mm from the bottom edge, away from the edge zones that some readers reserve for gestures. On e-ink tablets links are usually tapped with a finger, not the pen.

Getting the file onto the reader is the same as with any other book: download the PDF on a computer or phone and copy it over with the reMarkable desktop or mobile app, Send to Kindle for the Scribe, or a USB cable and the device folder for Boox. Nothing is installed and no account of ours is needed.

What we have not verified

The file has not been opened on a physical reMarkable, Kindle Scribe, Boox or Supernote. The link margins are measured only in the PDF, and readers differ in how they handle internal links and in which edge zones they keep for gestures. The ruled lines for the pen are 0.3 pt grey, and whether they are visible enough at 226 dots per inch is untested.

That is why there is a free sample: days 1 to 7 as a separate PDF of 51 pages with 139 internal links, 0 dead, the same 157 x 210 mm page and the same kind of links as the book. If a link does not respond on your device, you know before you pay.

Frequently asked questions

Where to get it

The free sample of days 1 to 7 is on the Morning Quiet page at https://arling.sk/morning-quiet/, with no account and no e-mail. Book 1 is sold as a digital download in our Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/shop/ARLingPuzzles, for 4.90 €: the e-ink, A4 and US Letter files and the sample as a fourth file. Our other titles for the same page size are on the puzzle books page: ten printable puzzle books of 100 puzzles each, 4.90 € a book.