Thanks you!
The scoring is by design: you need to fulfill one of the containers (one of the tables with the open books is the easiest one) to get points. I planned to remove a row of books from the falling book dome (basically a Tetris-eliminate-row mechanism) as soon as you fulfill any of the containers so that you have more time to fulfill more - but had not the time to fully implement it :(
Probably will rework it a little bit after the jam :)
Thanks also for the panic room idea, I will keep this in mind! :)