No, I don't use rechargeable batteries since the experience I had with my Road Runner. Your lithium batteries sound very good but here in the UK people with visual impairment can purchase Duracell Plus Alkaline batteries at a very good price from an organisation called Tapesense. Best. Robert. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 12:57 AM Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Mixed up Keypad controls My guess would be that you might be removing reguar batteries and inserting rechargeable ones. Like I said, I'm currently using a set of lithiums, and they are working great. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:12 AM Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Mixed up Keypad controls > I wonder if the state of the battery rechargeable or nonrechargeable setting could be saved along with other settings like speech rate, voice etc. I doubt we'll ever reach consensus regarding which state should be > default. But once you set it to your preference, why doesn't it stay that way through battery changes? If you properly shut the bc down before changing batteries, why doesn't that setting stick? > Mary > > >