Might I suggest you implement the command "read". Too many times I've tried to "read sign" "read notice" "read newspaper" and it yells "Hornsbaddle!" at me...lol
Kinda the reason it's not there now is that there was talk at one time of making a ReadSkill, and thus you *had* to use Read instead of Look, had to have the skill, blah blah. Maybe that's too complex for right now! LOL.