author=alterego
Here's an idea: Show the book without any opacity, then put a semi-transparent black message box under the text and keep the color.

Hmm maybe I will have to try that, thanks for the idea.

author=King of Games
Yes, it's hard to read. Either make the text actually part of the (non transparent) book or get rid of the book completely.

Originally you would've just read the book, but I couldn't get the picture to show right without it zooming to full screen. And if i zoomed out the text was unreadable. So I decided to just use the pic of the book as a background image while the text was displayed on the screen.