reading others' autobiographies is a time trap that deprives you of material for your own autobiography
Not if you self-insert. I've had sex with countless XVIIIth century nobles. What have you done?
Casanova read a lot though, reading Latin poetry was his greatest pleasure in life along with women. When he got stuck in one town where no one read Latin poetry he said im going insane help me niggerman and couldn't even focus on seducing women because of how disturbed he was. In spite of this he wrote a better autobiography than any non reader could