It's perfectly understandable to expect to be able to read these things, but tablet PCs simply aren't designed for people to be reading them from four feet away. Arguing that you should be able to view them from that distance is like arguing that you should be able to read FFXIII Datalogs from twice the reasonable distance.
of all examples you brought up one of the worst design features in FF history?
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel...