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You can always prevent your nook from contacting barnes & noble servers by blacklisting barnesandnoble.com and bn.com in your home router. The drawbacks (or benefits, depending on your point of view) are that you won't be able to get auto firmware updates or be able to sync with your account. You'll also have to make sure to turn on wifi only on your home network.
If you go to a cafe, it'll start connecting.
If you're rooted, you can block those domains by adding them to /etc/hosts on your nook. [Again, your nook won't be able to connect to them at all for anything]
ssh into your nook, type:
mount
- note the /dev/block/XXXX and filesystem type entries for /system, then type something like:
mount -o rw,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
This will allow you to edit /etc/hosts. Now do:
echo "127.0.0.1 barnesandnoble.com" >> /etc/hosts
echo "127.0.0.1 bn.com" >> /etc/hosts
And finally restore the read-onlyness:
mount -o ro,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
No reboot required. To undo, remove the two lines from /etc/hosts.
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