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Title: Great recorder, poor battery use
Review: I bought this recorder so I could tape my lectures in grad school. The quality of the sound is great (very clear), the recorder is easy to use (5 different folders are available so I can store lectures from different classes in the same folder), but I'm a little dissatisfied that the batteries need to be changed versus charged. It lasted for about 40-50 hours of recording - this is my first recorder, so I'm not sure if that's a good amount of time for the batteries to last. It would have been nice if the recorder was designed to recharge rather than requiring new batteries. That way, if I were in class with my laptop and the recorder was dying, I would be able to plug it into my computer and continue using it, which is not possible with the current design. Overall, the recorder satisfies! I'll just need to be cognizant of the battery life.
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