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About this mod

An SKSE plugin for Skyrim SE/AE that displays book and note text in a custom overlay window with configurable fonts for improved readability, plus a universal text sanitizer ("Tofu Remover") that fixes unsupported Unicode characters in dialogue, books, etc.

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Easy2Read

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An SKSE plugin for Skyrim SE/AE that displays book and note text in a custom overlay window with configurable fonts for improved readability, plus a universal text sanitizer ("Tofu Remover") that fixes unsupported Unicode characters in dialogue, books, etc.

Features

Book Overlay

When reading a book/note, press the F key (configurable) to pull up an overlay with the text. Theme support, multiple font options (including the OpenDyslexic font), and includes support for image descriptions/text replacement. By default, mappings are provided for vanilla and Scribes of Skyrim calligraphy.

Tofu Remover (Text Sanitizer) Automatically replaces unsupported Unicode characters ("tofu" □) with readable ASCII equivalents:

• Books, Items, Spells – DESC/CNAM records
• Dialogue Subtitles – INFO NAM1 records
• Dialogue Menu Options – DIAL FULL records
• Quest Journal Descriptions – QUST CNAM records
• Map Markers – Detection only (REFR FULL)
• NPC Names – Detection only (NPC FULL)

Note: Loading screen tips use a different system that seems to crash when hooked the same way as the other text. As such, I’ve not implemented a hook for it. This is a known limitation at this time. If you have a solution for this, please reach out or submit a PR :)

Usage

Book Overlay

• Open any book or note in Skyrim
• Press the toggle key (default: F on keyboard, Y on gamepad) to display the overlay
• Press the toggle key again or close the book to hide the overlay

Tofu Remover Works automatically. Unsupported characters are replaced as text loads.

Configuration

Easy2Read.ini `[General]ToggleKey = 33 ; Hotkey scancode (default F = 33)

[TextSanitization] Enable = true ; Master toggle for Tofu Remover Mode = On; On, DetectOnly, or Off DebugMode = false ; Verbose logging for troubleshooting LogReplacements = false ; Log each character replacement

[TextSanitization.Hooks] ; Disable individual hooks if they cause issues EnableDescriptionHook = true ; Books, items, spells EnableDialogueHook = true ; Dialogue subtitles EnableDialogueMenuHook = true; Dialogue menu options EnableQuestHook = true ; Quest journal EnableMapMarkerHook = true; Map markers (detect only) EnableNpcNameHook = true ; NPC names (detect only)`

Easy2Read_Theme.ini Customize the overlay appearance:

• [Font]: FontPreset (Sovngarde/Dyslexic/ImGui/Custom), FontSize, TitleScale
• [Colors]: Title, body text, window, border, separator colors (RGB 0–255)
• [Scrollbar]: Background, thumb, hover colors, size, rounding, scroll speed
• [Window]: Size (% of screen), opacity, rounding, padding

Known Limitations/Quirks

• VR Untested: Built to support VR but not tested. Please report if it works.
• Loading Screens: Cannot sanitize loading screen tips
• Multi-page Books: All text shown concatenated; page breaks not preserved
• Dynamic Text: Books with script-generated text may show base text in overlay
• Input Capturing: Input still passes to underlying book menu (please reach out if you have ideas to solve this!)
• Map Markers/NPC Names: Detection only – cannot modify these in-place at this time

Future Plans

• Fix loading screens if possible.
• Show the key to press for the overlay in the book UI.

License This project is licensed under GPL-3.0. Font files are licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

I can’t stop you from doing anything you want with this. That said, I’d still appreciate it if you reached out to me first :)

Source The source code for this project can be found here.

Credits

• CommonLibSSE NG team for the SKSE framework
• ImGui for the immediate-mode GUI library
• SSE-ImGui project for D3D11 hooking reference
• AnyASCII for transliteration table
• SkyHorizon3 for Dynamic String Distributor reference
• OpenDyslexic font
• mjorka for Sovngarde font
• Community Shaders team (input reference)
• krypto5863 for Tofu Detective (character set reference)
• open book by Lluisa Iborra from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)