What is a good way to organize hundreds of sortable items in a list

I have many pages of items each page containing m x n items with the m and n dimension layouts being editable by the user. I want the order of the items on the page to be editable so I thought about using the jquery-ui sortable connected list shown here: https://jqueryui.com/sortable/#connect-lists

Where each page would be a list and the items can be ordered based on their position in the grid like array of connected lists. Is this a good approach or should I go in a different direction?