Abstract: An automated process for binding together book or magazine signatures or the like, which signatures have been assembled together in saddle-wise fashion. An undersignature, forming the central portion of a book or magazine, is dispensed upon a moving conveyor and stabilized thereon while adhesive is deposited upon the spine of the undersignature being transported. An oversignature is dispensed upon the conveyor, stabilized thereon and then mated with the undersignature in an aligned manner such that two signatures are joined and the adhesive therebetween and distributed in a desired controlled manner. A book or magazine is thus produced whose signatures are attached with a hinge-like bond.