addyosmani/backbone-pagination — comment on commit 0dea888f692453ee82a5acf55612d5688502416c
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By addyosmani:

It's probably wise to extend sorting to support sorting by any column in the data. This might be best exposed using a select drop-down box which has it's own value keys. You can then do model.get(the value) to easily sort by that column (field).