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1. Softrooting voids your warranty, true, but as long as the device is running you can always go back to stock firmware. If the device isn't running anymore, the B&N support employees can't detect the softroot with simple means. They would have to disassemble the device to get to the internal microSD. They don't do this (to expensive).
2. Even if your warranty is void due to softrooting: this doesn't matter if your nook develops any hardware defect (e.g. cracked buttons). As an attorney astrangerhere will know.
3. Somewhere along the way your warranty will be expired. More often than not after one year. If your unrooted nook develops any software defect and resetting doesn't work your nook is a brick. Currently there are devices showing this behaviour every now and then and they are replaced under warranty. If your warranty is expired, your only chance to "unbrick" it, is to open the case to rewrite the internal microSD in your computer. If you got one of the newer nooks with soldered memory: there's always a use for a beautiful paper weight. With a rooted nook there's a small chance that the problem could be solved usind ADB.
4. If you think about softrooting: don't upgrade to 1.5 before you hear something positive from the nookdevs. B&N changed the hardware on the newer devices and the original firmware doesn't support this new components. This newer hardware comes with stock firmware 1.4.1 or 1.4.2. Downgrading to any of the previous stock versions bricks these devices irrevocable. B&N made the mistake not to check the "upgrade" firmware version to disable these destructive downgrades. I'm quite sure they'll fix this with 1.5. As downgrading to 1.0 is the first step to softroot it's perhaps not possible to root the devices anymore once stock version 1.5 is installed.
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