What makes this 850 page document "notes"? How large would a non-"notes" version be?

For the easily intimidated, here are smaller introductions:

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mahalex a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

“Notes” is short for “lecture notes” and has nothing to do with size.

	▲	madcaptenor 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The current version is more "textbook" than "notes", but like many textbooks it originated as lecture notes because no sane person would sit down and write a textbook.

dhampi a day ago | parent | prev [-]

FOAG is probably the shortest readable introduction to serious algebraic geometry anyone has written. That's the nature of algebraic geometry.