Subsequent searches of PDFs hang

I just noticed that when I use iBooks to search for text within PDF documents, the first search works successfully, but subsequent searches seem to hang (i.e., they take longer than I am willing to wait).  This is on my 1st gen iPad running the latest everything.  A friend of mine with a new iPad pointed the issue out to me.
Is this a known problem?
alan

So what version of RH? All patched up? Is it merged help only that’s having issue or regular projects? Is it happening with the sample projects?

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