So, for some reason, I have no idea why, the game crashes when I pick up any book and it enters the view where I'm supposed to read it and flip pages. Except the book doesn't appear, the game freezes after a few seconds, and then the game closes.

I guess I could post my dxdiag or system specs if that would help, but everything else in the game runs fine, no problems at all except this odd occurrence.

Any guesses?

This all happens in the beginning section, when I try to pick up the "Story of The Dragonborn" or whatever it's called, or the other book in the guard barracks. However, when I pick up books from a container and it doesn't "open" them, it works fine.

Please help, I don't want my mage to be illiterate.

Dxdiag:http://pastebin.com/KePLV4Rr

I believe I figured out the solution!

I had changed bDoDepthOfField in the [ImageSpace] in one of my .ini files to 1, instead of the default 0. Turning it back to 0 fixed the problem!

Hope this might help anyone else with this issue.