Viewing pdfs with Quick Look is too small in Lion?

I tried to search for this everywhere and I didn't see much input.
I'm a grad student in the biomedical sciences. I need to keep a large library of pdfs for my work and one of the best things about switching to a mac was being able to use quick look to quickly browse pdfs instead of having to open tons of files just to find what I need. Often I'll be looking for specific information and in Snow Leopard I could read an entire pdf article using quicklook because the pdf filled the screen.
In Lion quick look doesn't make the pdfs large enough to actually read, except for the title of articles.
In Lion I can't zoom in pdfs and I can't seem to get the pdfs very big with quicklook no matter if I am in full screen mode or resize the window etc. I don't actually even understand why full screen is an option for previewing pdfs in Lion because it only makes them fractionally larger than they are in the regular viewing window...(on a 13inch MBP anyway)
Am I missing something?
I just upgraded to Lion with the 10.7.3 update btw and I have spent the past several days tweaking Lion to get it back just the way I want it. This feels like the final stumbling block...
I guess I was just wondering
a) is there anything I can do to remedy the situation besides simply getting used to opening the files in preview (which of course I do eventually anyway)
b) am I really the only one bothered by this? It seems really subpar compared to how quick look worked in Snow Leopard but after trolling the web for about an hour I've found scarcly any mention of the issue...
Thanks in advance for any input and if by any chance this bothers you as well please send apple feedback (which I just did).

Ok, I will send this comment also to Apple feedback.
I appreciate your efforts to point out possible solutions (which I tried out before posting here).
Despite the fact that they don't work here (font resolution is too poor to be readable when enlarged through the magnifier) I would still consider this issue a downgrade with respect to previous versions of OS X just because it would require more efforts to arrive at the same results compared to simply enlarging the window with one mouse/trackpad move. A lower screen resolution can definitely not be the preferred solution. I'm far from being blind and I enjoy my current screen resolution.
Dragging things into the preview app is not favorable either: I want to have a quicklook and don't want to bother actually opening lots of files at a time.

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