Well, I had a new thing this morning. First, no apparent issues re the total battery discharge. I'll see how battery performance is today.
This morning I took the Vox off the charger and powered it up. Everything looks fine. I opened a Kobo book and read it a bit, then closed the Kobo app. I shut off the wifi and put the Vox down and left it to go do something else. Walked by later and saw the Vox had gone into sleep mode. I have it set to do so after 30 minutes. A bit later than that, I saw the lock screen, so the Vox had awakened itself. From the lock screen, it was unresponsive. I held the power button down. The Vox turned off and then restarted. I did not hold it down to the count of "10-one-thousand".
I'm not crazy about it coming out of sleep mode by itself and then freezing "on".