For years I've scanned things I like from mags and stored them on my external hard drive because like someone else said there's usually only 1 or 2 things in a mag I may want to keep. It's true, if you burn them onto a cd or dvd the copies don't last forever but if you keep them on an external drive you can always have access to them. I like the idea of tearing them out but when I used to do that I still accumulated too much so I had to go digital.