Hi, Just thought I'd tell those of you who use finereader 7 what I do since setting changes aren't saved. What I do is of course choose load current batch at startup, and when I save my settings for that batch, I call it books for example. Then when I'm done scanning a book, I save it as a text file. Then, I do a control A to select all the pages and delete them from the batch. Then the next time I start finereader, the empty batch books, with all the settings will be loaded and ready for a new one. Hope this makes sense and helps. Pam