Yours is one of the main complaints voracious emagazine readers have about Apple's baby tablet: Some magazines are simply too small to read. That's because Apple decided to make the iPad mini and its bigger, non-Retina sibling have the same resolution (in part so programmers don't need to redo their apps specifically for the smaller screen), so what you see on the 7-inch screen is just a miniaturized version of what you'd get on the 10-inch. the second tap and slide up or down to adjust how magnified the image is.