a method for digitally tearing out an article from a digital magazine is disclosed . in one embodiment , the method is realized by splitting the whole digital magazine into separate articles based on the digital magazine &# 39 ; s meta - data , providing a user interface for users to take action of tearing out an article , checking the tear - out request against the article &# 39 ; s tear - out policy , and retrieving and adding the article to the user &# 39 ; s collection if the request is granted .