A professional who tends saddle-stitching machine to repair salvable magazines, comic books, or catalogs in bindery. Responsibilities include:

• Picks up book from supply on worktable, opens book, and places book in tentlike position over fixture of wire-stitching machine.
• Examines book to determine location of missing stitch (staple), and positions book under stitching head.
• Depresses pedal to start machine and insert missing stitch.
• Stacks stitched book on worktable for removal.
• Examines wrinkled, creased, or dog-eared pages and cover sheets and separates sheets judged to be salvable and discards remainder of sheets.
• Rolls and bends sheets and smooths with hands and fingers to remove wrinkles and creases.
• Folds repaired sheets by hand and stacks sheets to be returned to binding machines.
• Keeps daily production records.