Here’s where you customize how the Home screen works, and there are plenty of ways to do it:
Set wallpaper. Tap here to change the Home screen’s wallpaper—its background image. You can choose from wallpapers built right into the NOOK, or from any photographs you have on the NOOK. For details, see Changing Your Wallpaper.
Clear Keep Reading list. At the top of the Home screen, you’ll find the name of the most recent book you were reading. Tap it to open the book to the last page you were reading. If you want to clear that name so that it doesn’t appear, tap here and then tap OK. The next book you start reading will show up on the list.
Clear Daily Shelf. Cleans out the Daily Shelf—the list of books you’ve most recently been reading and the apps you’ve been using (The Daily Shelf). Then, as soon as you start reading books and using apps, they’ll show up on a fresh Daily Shelf.
Media Shortcuts. Media shortcuts are the small icons on the Home screen, just above the Notification bar, and below the Daily Shelf. The goal of their existence is to help you buy books, periodicals, movies, music, and apps. If you want them out of the way, turn off this box. You can always add them back by turning the box back on.
The next section, Daily Shelf Items, has five separate items that let you fine-tune what appears on the Daily Shelf: “Recommendations from friends,” “LendMe offers from friends,” “Recently opened Library items,” “Recent issues of each Newspaper,” and “Recent issues of each Magazine.” Turn off the boxes on the first three items if you don’t want them to appear on the Daily Shelf. For the final two items, tap the down arrow to choose how many recent issues of newspaper and magazines you want to show up. Out of the box, you see only one, but you can instead choose to display two, three, all, or none.
The next section, More Menu Options, varies according to which apps you have installed. For example, your Netflix account, if you have one, shows up here. Tap it if you want to unlink your NOOK from your Netflix account, which means you can’t watch Netflix from that particular account.