Preserving books, magazines, and newspapers that contain images

Question:
I am a high school student, and my hobby is reading and browsing; this has led me to subscribe to many Islamic, cultural, and military magazines. However, some of these magazines—and in fact most of them—are not free from images of people, even though I keep the magazines in a private library of my own, along with the images in them. We know what has been said about image-makers, and what has been said in the Prophetic hadiths about angels not entering a house that contains a dog or an image. I ask for clarification of this issue that removes the ambiguity and is comprehensive and restrictive?

Answer:
There is no harm in preserving useful books, newspapers, and magazines, even if they contain some images. However, if the images are of women, it is obligatory to obliterate them. As for if they are images of men, it is sufficient to obliterate the head, in accordance with the authentic hadiths reported on this matter.