Creating additional LR4 Catalogs

Hi,
From time to time I purchase books to learn more about Photoshop and Lightroom. If the books provide example photographs that are available on the authors website, I typically download them and import them into my LR catalog where I keep all of my own photos. One thing that I find annoying is that the photos provided with the books often have keywords embedded in the metadata and this corrupts my own keyword list with those of the authors. So I have decided that I want to create a separate catalog that's just for photos that accompany books so my list doesn't keep importing new keywords that I havent created on my own. Working out of more than one catalog is new territory for me. Is it OK to have two catalogs on the same computer and do I need to worry about where I create the second catalog? I have heard that managing multiple LR catalogs can be challenging and don't want to commit some kind of grave error.
Thanks,
John

Thank you. Lightroom originally created my catalog in my MyPictures folder which has been fine. Is there a preferred place to create the new catalog? Also, if some of the photos are in my existing catalog can I just tell LR to remove them from that catalog and then import them into the other one?

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