The reason that Beatty says this to the woman is because, in his opinion, the books do not agree with each other. This means that they would not really be able to understand one another, and that is why they are like the Tower of Babel.
In the Bible (the book of Genesis, to be exact), a group of people were going to build a tower so high it would reach Heaven. God did not like them trying to do this and so he made it so that they all started speaking different languages. When this happened, they could not longer understand or talk to each other.
So it is with the books. They don't agree, so they can't really talk to each other.
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