Either I'm Impatient or There's NaNo Bundle Burnout

So each year I've looked at the various bundle offer sites to see what is being offered as a NaNoWriMo writing book bundle. The first few years that I saw them I picked up most of them, then after a few years there started to be overlap between what was being offered and what I'd picked up previously, and sometimes I looked at a bundle and a chunk of the selection would make me cock my head to the side and say, "Wut?" But it's now October 3rd, less than a month to NaNo and of Story Bundle, Humble Bundle, and Bundle of Holding the last is the only one that seems to have a NaNo bundle up (a collection of journaling games at least one of which I already have. Bundle of Holding probably has it easiest as there's new journaling games coming out all the time so if the creators are willing then they have potential fresh bundles to offer. Sure, new writing advice books are always coming out too, but it just feels like that's still one where you're going to be more likely to start feeling stale. How many variations on No Plot No Problem or X Ways To Outline does one need? I think if I was in charge of putting together such a bundle I'd be inclined to actually split into two bundles, a Great For Beginners Bundle with as good a collection of well regarded classic entries and useful books as possible and try and get a standing agreement to have them in each year's bundle. And then a separate, "Interesting books we've spotted over the last year that you might not have run across yet." Which could well be a much smaller bundle, but better 5-6 well selected books than, "Oh, a hey, another twenty book bundle with someone's variation on No Plot No Problem, Hey Have You Heard Of Plotting?, and Fill-In-The-Blank's Editing Book." Somehow something in my head doesn't want to pick up a twenty book bundle when fifteen I either have or have the equivalent, two don't interest me at all, and three have me going, "Ooh!" Even when the bundle is less than what buying those last three would cost. It's like some part of me is still in the early 90s and remembers what trying to carry twenty books to the register of the local Borders Books felt like. (Oh for the days when my only bill was for the local ISP). But show me a five book bundle where three don't interest me at all, one I can take or leave, and only one of which makes me go, "Ooh!" and my finger starts edging towards that buy button and I have to double check what the last two would cost on their own versus the bundle price.

Anyway, hi, if we don't hang out on the same parts of the fediverse I'm still alive and still almost entirely lurking when it comes to Dreamwidth. Hopefully more active soon.