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[Ragnarock]

I didn't take Reader skill at start because I thought this fella is going to die fast anyways, but I found some cool stuff I want to read. How to get the skill?

[Kolnukbyne]

Pretty much unless you choose the reader skill in character creation there is no way to obtain/increase it. Currently there is no way at all for reader to increase naturally in game, so simply put unless you can read you'll never be able to read.
On the up-side, you only need one point in reader to be able to read anything at all.

[Ragnarock]

Yeah, that's kinda what I noticed already, I want to mess around in the game file or something

Well, it doesn't matter, I just got killed by a lower arm.

[squishynoob]

Perhaps you could make a custom reaction that use reader skill. Never tried it, though.

[Rumrusher]

Eh the time takes mashing out that reader skill through reaction isn't enough if you just spent the one point. Either way no one outside of  your adventurers can read. since no one in game has the reader skill not the deities, not the necromancers, not the store owners who write their signs no one has reading.

[Kolnukbyne]

Either way no one outside of  your adventurers can read. since no one in game has the reader skill not the deities, not the necromancers, not the store owners who write their signs no one has reading.

So either they're all really really lucky when they write a sign/book/tablet and somehow manage to create a pattern of symbols that makes sense or your 'reader' is just making shit up.

[Deon]

I thought about adding a natural reader skill to civilized races. It would solve this issue and also explain how do they write books.

Or maybe Kolnukbyne is right, the "reader" skill allows you to understand whatever they decided to "write" . Have you ever noticed how small the info about books is? The books may have a lot of pages, but you can only understand that it's about some man thinking about something. He probably filled all those pages with pictures of him thinking about something, and the reader skill allows you to comprehend weird sketches .

[Tiruin]

Or. What you actually read as the description is what you perceive in game. It can be a bunch of scribbles, or pictures, or motifs resembling something any common person can understand.

Funny thing is, nobody has ever defined Reading - meaning the universal language for reading! This easily explains that everyone can read and write, just...in a way that goes against the term of "Reading."

Its only a point or two though. Not much harm to be done unless you're pretty sure you're sealing that adventurer's fate.