16GB iPad Mini Retina full with 10.3GB of 'Other'?

My 16GB iPad Mini Retina has been giving me 'storage almost full' messages lately despite me deleting all my videos, nearly all my photos, many apps, etc. I actually have very little stuff stored on it compared to this annoying, mysterious 'other'. No music, no TV shows, no movies, very few documents, emails or anything. I deleted big apps like Twitter and it's made no difference. When I connect my iPad to my Mac and open iTunes, here's what it says is on the Mini:
Capacity 11.69GB
149 MB Photos
1.08 GB Apps
169 MB Documents + Data
10.30 GB of OTHER
Not sure what's going on. I can't even update to the latest iOS update or even save a single photo. Any ideas of what's wrong and what I can do?

Thanks for that link Kappy; I'd read that previously, but that's for clearing out stuff you might have accumulated along the way - which I understand and appreciate. It's having 0.5Gb on the shrink-wrapped device that's confusing me.
I would walk down to the Apple Store, but last time I had a problem the Genius said "I'll just Google that..." which didn't inspire confidence :-)
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