“You feel strangely compelled towards the text and begin to read it in a sonorous chant”

“Up pup pup! Check my character sheet, I’m illiterate!”

“You said you were playing a journalist who could speak seven languages.”

“A photojournalist! I’m illiterate in all of them.”

Ok. What does my character do next, GM ? Paint my scene for me.

I’d argue that’s more of a wisdom roll. INT would be a attempt to decipher it without magic, WIS would be knowing not fuck with creepy book or to at least cast detect magic first