Two address books so i can merge one with other software?!

apologies again for the multiple mac mail questions today. i am a relatively new mac user, have upgraded recently to lion and am trying to finally put it all together.
does anyone know if it is possible to create a second address book account?
i would like to merge my contacts in CardScan with Mac Address Book but i would like to keep my Address Book contacts (the ones i use on my phone all the time) separate from this more business oriented database.
any ideas?
TIA

CC,
you can add a new user account on your Mac (open system preferences / accounts) and start fresh there with an empty AddressBook.
If you want to fill this with a part of your original AB, select those and export as vCards. Drop this export file in your shared folder so you can access that from the new user account. Open AB ther and import the vCards

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