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Benefits of .Net's AppSettingsReader vs ConfigurationManager for reading application configuration settings

Is there a substantial difference between the AppSettingsReader class and the AppSettings member of the ConfigurationManager class in .Net 3.5?

I'm building out some legacy code and a previous developer used AppSettingsReader.GetValue(), whereas I am more prone to use ConfigurationManage.AppSettings.Get().

Looking at the internals, AppSettingReader seems to be more typesafe, but its usage seems slightly more verbose. If the app settings I'm retrieving are well-known and fairly static, is there any benefit to using AppSettingsReader?

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