Okay, I guess the title of this post (hi everyone!) should be the other way round, but here goes:

1. I have a problem with my iBooks app in that every so often when I go to open it, the bookshelf (empty) will appear, nothing happens for about 10 seconds and then it closes. I have deleted the app and re-installed a couple of times. I will admit right now that I have my complete library on my iPad2 - some 3,000 odd books. Is it an issue with the number of files that have to be loaded?

2. I am a noob but I found the search function did not give me results that were particularly useful. I found myself scrolling through a gaming discussion when I searched for an ibooks problem. Any tips for getting better reults?

Donald

Hmmm. I'm having the same problem. Interesting! I've done all the things suggested by Leelai except delete iBooks totally. 3000+ books is a lot of time wasted reloading them so I just put up with it and try keeping background clear at all times.
I run it down once a month and hopefully a new update might correct this. Thumbs! My fav app by far.
I would suggest you press both buttons until the close the iPad sign and close it down. Then relaunch when it's off by pressing both buttons again. It does seem to take 10 seconds to come on but it does after doing this 'reboot'.

Sent from my one and only original iPad using iPF

I must admit its been doing this a while. It's annoying as in it's my fav app. When I logged in yesterday. It did it again. I have 1.2GB available and I have to clear the multitask bar to get it right. It's alright if I'm reading all day but if I try the next day, it does it again. Hmmm! I need to watch what happens and I'll let you know any consistent problems. Leelai

Wow a full minute before it logged into my bookmarked page. I never knew how long I had to wait. It also crashed after waiting 30seconds to log into iBooks. I'd be interested to know if anyone else on iPad original has this problem.

Sent from my one and only original iPad using iPF

just joined to find a solution to my ibooks search problem, your post came up. The moderators solution, first paragraph, fixed my problem.

I have now officially moved from iBooks entirely. Using Calibre I have converted my files to .mobi and now use a combination of kindle and (for .epubs and .cbr) Stanza. Since doing that I have had no problems except a little time loading and one time where the thumbs of the book covers did not show - a sync with iTunes cleared that up. It took advice to discover how to add my .mobi and .epub, using the share function in the apps section on iTunes. Now I no longer worry about an app freezing on me.