This is one of the best put together Mage books. Set up as though a special issue of the Paradigma journal, the in-universe journal used by Etherites to share their work, it's laid out similarly to other Tradition books within that format, but the details are what makes it special. Every bit of text which is in character is directly attributed to a specific character, several of whom exist across the Mage line, though most appear exactly once.

The only disappointing bit is, for all that Matter is spoken of as the central Sphere for the Etherites, none of the rotes in the book are Matter rotes! But this is a minor issue, compared to such great bits of flavor as the tales of Czar Vargo and of Doc Eon, of the brief appearance by Dame Atomika declaring herself an Electrodyne Diva and the discussions of Etherspace, the Gernsback Continuum and more. For how short it is, it's really packed with good, useful things.

A small caveat, as of the time of this writing, the scan available on DriveThruRPG and Storyteller's Vault has an error, skipping pages and with badly scanned pages in the teens. Otherwise, though, it is fine, and the version of Traditions Gathered 1 is complete.