Highlighting in iBooks problem

I have this problem too after ios6 update. So updated ibooks to 2.2 but same problem. Restarted ipad (3), no change.

I would really a solution to this as I have come to use the Highlight and Note bar functions often.

I think I have discovered the cause.

I wanted to see if I could alter the voice in Settings, Accessibility, speak selection (ios5 had only an Australian option, which was awful: ios6 has several dialects, much better). I tried the changes on an iBooks selection, which worked fine but still no highlight bar functions, then wondered what would happen if I turned off speak selection.

I turned off speak selection, quit iBooks, restarted the ipad, reopened iBooks and voila! I could get the highlight bar with all its functions except speak.

Just to make sure, I turned speak selection on again, and again all options except speak disappeared in iBooks.

So now I have highlighting but no speak capability.

I have sent all this info to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks, hopefully they will fix this rather glaring bug.

Thanks, I just ran into this problem. I've turned off speak selection to regain the other options. I only had to quit iBooks and reopen it. I didn't have to restart my iPad.

I reported the bug as well at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks_ios.html

I hope Apple fixes this soon!

Thanks. it was driving me mad. But it seems to be working.

Thanks so much !

I have this scary problem too.

If you do not want to bother to turn the "Speak" off, the fast way to highlight more than a single word, say a paragraph, is to tap on a word and then drag to where you want to stop. That is a trick to highlight text in iBook.