Cooking Dried Beans in a Crock Pot

It occurred to me today, as I was running around like a crazy person trying to get stuff done over Spring Break, that it should be possible to cook dried beans in a crock pot. That would free me from hovering near the stove watching a pot of beans cook for an hour and a half. So I hopped onto Google and what did I find? Many, many recipes for cooking dried beans in a crock pot! Eureka! If I