Gary,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPUX9wN-MoPCHXGUI8QLJSVzDUQvJnlc/view?usp=sharing

Here an example how it could be solved .. ;-) I;ll remove the file when you have it
The plextheme I used for version 2.x works similar

I'm also busy with Github's co-pilot and Claude Sonnet .. 
first try after 10 min is promising ;)

Thanks Gary
I know that it is a lot of work to fix and change that. You are welcome asking more questions. The new version I have on a separate VM so I can do a lot of testing without touching my existing environment ;)
Where I can I will help

Phoe .. 

The system does something... 

This is the admin are where we have multiple shared folders with same category
This is what you can see also here .. 

http://10.1.1.104:2202/comics

Above Example when I enter this I see the "correct"  layout for what we need when we have mutiple libraries.


 

But this part is not visible in the home page When I press strips or strips2 I get the correct ID of where the other library start
So you have correct pages but in the homepage it is not adapted.

Library 1 .. and I can also go to the 2nd one, but right now it is manually.

So for me there is actually no need to have a start or end as all data seems there 

Is that helpful ?

LOL ;_)

appreciated !

Your help/documentation is clear, but possibly I do something wrong or the theme cannot work with my setup ;) which you already said: it is working for you and it's a questionmark if it will work for others.

My main problem is, is that I do not get the browse option and I do not get the ability to go to my collection.  (Homepage only shows latest comics

My collection consist of 2 shared libraries. Meaning: Comics 1 and Comics 2
these are my main 2 folders. /comics/1 and /comics/15670

when I give /comics/1 in the config I only see 'latest Comics', I can press on that than I see home - Latest comics but I never see the library of the 2 . 

I can search for comics and than I get results but unfortunately it seems like due the fact that I have 2 folders which is my startingpoint with all the folders with comics that this is the reason why I do not see the link to /comics

Possibly that is also why we need to bypass the folder part in the advanced section.

I can enter manually /comics and than I see a screen with my comic1 and comic2 folder and I get enter it
and than the behaviour is that comic1 is like home -- comics but thats not available when I enable the theme and go to the home.

But .. no errors in console etc.. so that's ok.

Thanks for sharing !. I have  uploaded it to my test environment. Will have to check the docs before I give some nice feedback. ;-) Will do that later today.

No pressure .. ;) Have all the time of the world

Any id when you can share your theme @gary

I got the CBR's with no cover from my NAS, unpacked it and repacked it with zip .. 
no issue there. I am more happy that I do not have rar5 than that I have such issues. So little investment in my own time here ..