From the Home screen, tap iBooks. The iBooks screen appears (shown earlier in Figure 19-1).

Tap the image of the book you want to read. Your chosen ebook opens.

Tap the Search icon (it looks like a magnifying glass that appears in the upper-right corner of the screen). A Search field appears along with a virtual keyboard.

Type the word or phrase you want to find, and tap the Search key on the virtual keyboard. A listing of where that text appears in the book is displayed, as shown in Figure 19-9. Scroll down to see more instances of your search term.

Figure 19-9. A list appears, showing pages that contain the word or phrase you typed. Note that you can also search for your word on Wikipedia or the Web at large using Google—tapping either button will launch Safari.

Scroll through this list, and tap the page that you want to view. Your chosen page appears with your word or phrase highlighted, as shown in Figure 19-10.