Thanks for the feedback. More guidance could be good, perhaps a riddle could help as an extra nudge? There are 4 orbs in the puzzle room, you can select 4 runes in any order you want and room is reversed/flipped if that helps a little.
As for the ability to reset the book we purposefully kept that in. The theme for the jam was One Time Use so you only really get one shot at it. If you were playing the polished version the puzzle should be a clear fail or pass. There was a pretty big bug with the doors connection to the book in the original upload which was a big oops and would totally make things unclear.