Good point about the ladders, will look into making it a bit more obvious / easier to discover.
Originally I was thinking that the owls should disturb you while reading the books to add to the challenge, but I agree that it's pretty frustrating. I reckon if the owls' behaviour is updated to make it harder to actually get to the books, but they pause while you're actually reading, it could keep the difficulty level up while reducing how frustrating / unfair the game feels. Will play around with it
Thanks for playing and for the feedback!