Rebecca Rego Barry has written an article for the Lapham’s Quarterly “Roundtable” blog titled “Rebuilding Jane Austen’s Library” – citing Peter Sabor and Gillian Dow on the beginnings and importance of the “Reading with Austen” project. Barry also writes of other virtual libraries, such as those of Edith Wharton and Herman Melville. You can read all about it here:
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/rebuilding-jane-austens-library