Open in & iBooks

I have installed iOS 6 on both my iPAd 3 and iPhone 4S and the one fix I was really looking forward to was change to the Open in .. Function. On my iPad I 25 apps in the new open in dialog, 2 pages and half a page. But on neither machine have I got iBooks as an entry. So on my iPad I deleted the iBooks, rebooted the gadget, and then reinstalled iBooks but it still doesn't appear in the open in dialogue.
As I cannot find another way to get one's own PDF's it is a bit of bind to me.
Has anyone found a way to get iBooks in the dialog?

I posted something similar and tested this out on my iphone.
deleted ibooks app
This expanded my "open in" apps list to greater than 10 apps ... I think it includes all the apps that can possibly open pdfs now.
Inconvenient that ibooks has to be deleted to do this but its better than deleting several other paid apps randomly until the app you want appears in the list.
i am wonderin if this will work the same on the ipad.

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roaminggnome wrote:
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