I shopped this weekend for a table top battery powered lantern. I went to a couple of stores, and found one at Academy Sports. It was a Coleman Lantern, and it had a feature that was just the ticket: when it is shut off, the battery drain stops, so the battery life is not effected while it is in storage. And, it takes 4 D cell batteries, instead of the weird batteries my other battery powered lantern takes. It was a little more expensive than I wanted to spend, but the battery drain feature will pay for itself.